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AMMUNITION  FOR  FINAL 
DRIVE  ON  BOOZE 


AMMUNITION  FOR 
FINAL  DRIVE 
ON  BOOZE , 

AN  UP-TO-DATE  ARSENAL 
FOR  PROHIBITION  SPEAKERS 


REV.  LOUIS  ALBERT  BANKS,  D.D. 

Author  of  “Saloon  Keeper’s  Ledger,”  “Seven  Times  Around 
Jericho,”  “The  Lincoln  Legion” 


FUNK  & WAGNALLS  COMPANY 
NEW  YORK  AND  LONDON 

1917 


Copyright,  1917,  by 
PUNK  & WAGNALLS  COMPANY 
[Printed  In  the  United  States  of  America] 
Published,  September,  1917. 


Coyyrlght  Under  the  Articles  of  the  Copyright  Convention  of  the 
Pan-American  Republics  and  the  United  States,  August  11,  1910 


TO  MY  FRIEND 

THE  HON.  JOHN  G.  WOOLLEY,  LOYAL  COMRADE 
OF  THE  LONELIER  EARLY  DAYS  OF  STRUGGLE, 
AND  VALIANT  FELLOW  SOLDIER  IN  ^h'e  LAST 
MARCH  TO  VICTORY,  THIS  VOLUME  IS  LOV- 
INGLY DEDICATED. 

Louis  Albert  Banks. 


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A FIRST  WORD 


This  is  the  New  Epoch — please  God, 


the  Last  Epoch — in  the  fight  against  the 
liquor  traffic  in  America. 

The  speaker  of  to-day  who  is  going  to 
be  felt  effectively  in  the  strife  must  use 
the  arguments  and  speak  the  language  of 
to-day.  He  will  find  here  what  he  needs 
to  equip  him  for  the'  last  drive  on  the 
enemy. 

Louis  Albert  Banks. 

August  1,  1917. 


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TOPICAL  INDEX,  AUTHORS  QUOTED  FROM 
AND  AUTHORITIES  REFERRED  TO, 

IN  ALPHABETICAL  ORDER 


PAGE 


A Beautiful  Incident  . . 260 

Abernethy,  Dr.  A.  S.  . . 344 

A Big  Price  for  a Drink  . 323 
A Bigger  Pool  than  a Dog  328 
A Bum  Dope  ....  269 
A City  Without  Disorder  . 237 
A Clerical  Liquor  Hero  . 355 
A Congressman ’s  Strong 

Words 387 

A Costly  Piece  of  Ribbon  . 258 
“A  Criminal  Waste”  . . 363 

A Dangerous  Privileged 

Class 302 

A Danger  Point  in  South 

Dakota 262 

Age  of  Wonderful  Events  270 
A Glorious  Transformation  305 
A Great  Man’s  Legacy  . 226 
A Good  Working  Creed  . 381 
A Good  Snake  Story  . . 217 

A Governor  Worth  Having  350 
A Happy  Jail  Experience  . 221 
A Hard  Hit  ....  271 
Alaska,  Salvation  for  . . 35 

Alaska,  the  Way  Prohibi- 
tion Has  Ruined  . . . 240 

Alcohol  vs.  Efficiency  . . 293 

Alexander,  Moses,  Hon.  . 230 
A Liquor  Dealer’s  Conver- 
sion   333 

Allen,  Henry  J.  . . . 377 

All  the  Tides  Sweeping 
Toward  Prohibition  . . 42 


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And  Now  Comes  Japan  . 390 
*An  Economic  Folly  . . 295 

An  Eloquent  Supposition  . 229 
An  Official  Convert’s  Tes- 
timony   265 

Anti-Saloon  League  Move- 
ment, The  Romance  of 

the 57 

A Paralyzer  Not  a 

“Bracer”  . . . .328 

A Popular  Pledge  . . . 253 

A Public  Dope  Shop  . . 259 

Armor,  Mary  Harris  . . 160 

A Saloon-keeper  ’a  Palace 

Tomb 316 

A Saloon-keeper  Working 
for  a Dry  Town  . . . 396 

A Shameful  Pact  . . . 248 

A Shrinkage  Which  Means 

Blessing 309 

A Substitute  for  the  Saloon  372 
A Very  “Liberal 

League” 386 

A Voice  from  the  Crim- 
inal Dock 400 

« A Woman’s  Business  . . 116 

A Woman ’s  Sacrifice  . . 127 

^ Babies  and  Their  Vest^ 

Rights ■ . 69 

Babies  or  Booze — Which?.  264 
Baby  on  a Saloon  Bar  . . 394 

Baker,  Dr.  P.  A.  . . . 140 


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TOPICAL  INDEX,  IN  ALPHABETICAL  ORDER 


PAGE 

Bane,  Dr.  A.  C.  . . . 65,  96 

Banks,  Dr.  Louis  Albert  42,  57 
#Beer  and  Stupidity  . . . 340 

Beer  and  the  Hole  in  a 

Doughnut 347 

Beer  Drinking  and  Insur- 
ance   242 

Better  Eoads,  Epoch  of  . 28 

W Beware  of  Saloon  Manu- 
factured Facts  . . . 385 

Big  Strong  Pull  Together  . 228 
• Billy  Sunday  as  an  Asset  . 279 

Blest  Russia 223 

Blind  Tigers  ....  15 

Booth,  Alfred  ....  367 
Bowers,  Dr.  Edwin  F.  . . 223 

Booze  and  Dope  . . . 222 

Booze  and  Uniforms  . .»  294 

Booze  Loves  the  Dark  . 245 
Booze  Not  a True  Sport  . 216 
Brewery  Waste  in  England  367 
Brown,  Dr.  Edward  Vipont  375 
« Bryan,  William  Jennings  . 1 

Burrell,  Dr.  David  James  . 82 

Business  Men  ....  12 

Business  World  Against  In- 
toxicants   2 

Cairns,  T.  Alex.  . . . 198 

California  and  the  Water 

Wagon 354 

Canada  Going  Dry  . . . 395 

Cast  Up  the  Highway  . . 30 

Cherrington,  Ernest  H.  . 204 
Childhood,  The  Appeal  of  160 
Circus  Day  and  Prohibition  224 
Cities,  Too,  are -Going  Dry  357 
Clark,  Gen.  Harvey  C.  . 215 
Compensation,  As  to  . . 9 

Congress  Asked  to  Inter- 
fere   351 

Conscience,  Eight  of  . .26 


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Conservation  Could  Go  no 

Farther 388 

t Cordials  in  the  Father  Breed 
Brandy  in  the  Son  . . 265 

Courage,  Brother  . . . 326 

Crime  Against  the  Cradle, 

Our  Country’s  ...  96 

Deacon,  W.  J.  V.  . . . 390 

Death-rate,  The  Saloon  and 

the 218 

Demme,  Dr.  Rudolph  . . 71 

Democracy,  The  Saloon  and  129 
Destroying  the  Great  De- 
stroyer   109 

Down  HUl  Without  a Brake  375 
Down  with  the  Whisky 

Spiders 251 

Do  Your  Part  ....  391 
Drinking  to  Failure  . .376 

Drink  That  Gets  the  Man.  356 

Empringham,  Dr.  James  . 209 
Escaped  in  Time  . . . 220 

Farmers  and  the  Women  . 326 
For  a Young  Man’s  Mantel  339 
Forty-three  Per  Cent.  . . 260 

From  Judge  to  Tramp.  . 291 

Geisel,  Dr.  Carolyn  E.  . . 116 

German-Americans,  An  In- 
justice to  ....  14 

German  Emperor  Warning 
His  Soldiers  Against  Beer  339 
Get  a Transfer  ....  348 
Give  the  Home  a Chance  . 327 
• Good  for  All  ....  216 
Gordon,  Maria  H.  . . . 373 

Great  Physicians  and  Drink  267 
“Grin,  and  6hake,  and  Say 
‘Hullo’  ’;  ....  346 

•Groceries "or  Beer,  .Which?  353 


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TOPICAL  INDEX,  IN  ALPHABETICAL  ORDER 


PAGE 


Hanly,  Hon.  J.  Frank  . . 201 

Hil],  James  J 232 

Hobson,  Capt.  Eiehmond  P.  109 
Hodges,  Hon.  George  H.  . 194 
Howard,  Clinton  N.  . . 172 

How  Many  Empties  in 
Your  Town?  ....  301 
How  to  Arouse  the  Deaf.  246 

• How  to  Shellac  Your  Kid- 

neys   359 

Hunger  and  the  Saloon  . 335 
Hurrah  for  Canada  . . 304 

Hurty,  Dr.  J.  N.  . . . 259 

If  They  Could  Only  Abol- 
ish Grand  Juries  . . 284 

Improving  the  Top  Crust  . 276 
In  the  Mad-dog  Class  . . 242 

In  the  Quicksands  . . . 378 

It  Gives  one  and  Takes  Ten  368 
It  Has  Stunk  Itself  Out  . 288 
It’ll  Get  Ye!  ...  . 391 

Jordan,  Dr.  David  Starr  . 354 
Joy,  Dr.  James  E.  . . . 371 

•Kansas,  What  Ails  . . . 194 

Keep  Conscience  on  the  Job  232 
Keep  Dry  or  Get  Out  . . 215 

Kill  the  Dog  ....  286 

• Knocked  Out  by  One  Glass 

of  Beer 223 

Kramer,  Dr 192 

Lentz,  Hon.  John  J.  . .69 

#Less  Liquor;  More  Bread  . 364 
Let  the  Mothers  at  Them  . 395 
Let  Us  Alone  ....  363 
Let  Us  See  the  End  of  the 

Fight 315 

Licensing  a Saloon  to  De- 
feat God 383 

.License,  The  Absurdity  of  7 


PAGE 


*Lies  of  Liquor  Trade  . . 40 

•Life  Worth  Living  Under 
Prohibition  ....  338 
Likened  to  a Eattlesnake  . 17 

' Lincoln  Keeping  a Soldier 
Out  of  a Saloon  . . . 324 

.Lincoln  the  Prohibitionist.  357 
Lindquist,  Hon.  Francis  O.  387 
Liquor  a Disease  Breeder  . 390 
Liquor  and  Liberty  . . 273 

Liquor  Eevenue  Not  Needed  240 
Liquor  as  a Substitute  . 377 
Little  Taste  of  Prohibition  378 
Long,  Hon.  John  D.  . . 226 

Luce,  Hon.  Eobert  . . . 234 

Lynch,  Dr.  Frederick  . . 372 

MacNicholl,  Dr.  T.  Alex.  . 99 

^J\Iad  Dog  of  Civilization  . 353 
Make  a Chain  ....  215 
Making  a New  Eecord  . 309 
Mansfield,  J.  W.  . . . 224 

Maryland’s  Boll  of  Dis- 
honor   308 

Mans,  Dr.  L.  M.  . . . 107 

McBride,  Dr.  F.  Scott  . ,.  211 
McConnell,  Bishop  Francis  129 
McCullough,  Lieut.  Col.  J. 

W.  S 222 

Meet  Combination  with  Co- 
operation   22 

Meridian  Base,  True  . . 24 

Molly  and  Her  Vote  . . 192 

Money  in  the  Treasury  of 
Dry  Cities  . . . . 305 

Mothers  vs.  the  Saloon,  The  235 
Multiplies  Efficiency  . . '32 

Must  Be  Made  Safe  . . 37 

National  Health  . 361 

National  Prohibition  and 
Missions 382 


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TOPICAL  INDEX,  IN  ALPHABETICAL  ORDER 


PAGE 


National  Prohibition  Will 

Do  It 263 

Navy  Wine  Glasses  at  Auc- 
tion   239 

Nicholls,  Prof.  John  A.  . 385 
No  Drinking  Man  Need 

Apply 221 

No  Joshua  to  Make  the 
Sun  Stand  Still  . . . 233 

No  Longer  a Place  in  the 

Sun 320 

No  Longer  First  Aid  . . 400 

No  One  Left  to  Love  Him  259 
No  One  Wants  a Drunken 

Engineer  281 

Not  a Bottle  in  Sight  . . 214 

Not  a Good  Playfellow  . 340 
Not  “Pretty  Soon”  But 

Now  . 379 

No  Turning  Back  . . ..  163 

Novel  Drnking  on  Decline.  358 
Nuisance,  The  Saloon  a . 13 

OflScials  Answer  the  Liquor 

• Liars 246 

Ohio  and  Maine  in  Parallel 

Columns 244 

“Old  Man  Booze”  and  the 
Diamond  , ^ 370 

One  By  One  ....  341 
One  By  One  They  See  the 

Light 351 

Only  Vast  Cooperation  Can 
Fight  Liquor  Successfully  381 

On  the  Run 353 

Orphans  and  Drink  . . 366 

Our  New  Army  Corps  in 
the  Prohibition  Campaign  274 
Ousting  Beer  from  Fac- 
tories   283 

Our  Triumph  Sure  . . . 401 

Preparing  for  a Better  Day  389 


PAGE 

Paralyzing  the  Babies  . 243 
Patterson,  Malcolm  E. . 93,  157 
Platt,  Mrs.  Margaret  B.  . 235 
Polities,  Road  for  ...  33 

Preparation,  The  Best  . . 19 

Prohibition,  All  the  Tides 
Sweeping  Toward  . . 42 

Prohibition  and  the  De- 
struction of  Property  . 93 

Prohibition  and  Human 
Conservation,  The  Rela- 


tion Between  ....  65 

Prohibition  and  Self-Re- 
spect   283 

Prohibition,  Grovrth  of  . 20 

Prohibition  and  Home  Mis- 
sions   331 

Prohibition  in  Harmony 
with  Federal  Constitu- 
tion   201 

Prohibition  on  the  Dia- 
mond   330 

Prohibition  Songs  in  Russia  374 
Prohibition,  The  After. 

products  of  ...  . 251 

Prohibition,  The  Great 
Commoner  on  Reasons  for  1 
Prohibition,  The  Mighty 
Momentum  of  . . . 188 

Prohibition,  Where  to  Look 
for  These  Fanatic  Days  209 
Protect  the  Home  . . . 275 

Put  Drink  on  List  of 

Poisons 219 

Putnam,  George  Palmer  . 214 
Putting  in  Our  Leaven  . 399 
Putting  on  the  Eight  Label  325 

Quick  Liquor  Makes  a Slow 

Brain  226 

Quit  the  Drink  or  Lose  the 
Job 220 


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TOPICAL  INDEX,  IN  ALPHABETICAL  ORDER 


PAGE 

Eecruits  from  Anti-Sump- 
tuary Crowd  . . .374 

Eefuse  Their  Own  Medicine  364 
Eegeneration  of  the  Eus- 
sian  Farmer  ....  261 
Eichards,  Florence  D.  . . 190 

Biley,  James  Whitcomb  232,  343 
Eoosevelt  and  Bryan  . . 285 

Eush,  Dr.  Benjamin  . . 230 

Eussell,  Dr.  Howard  H.  . 151 

Saloon  Losing  Standing  in 

Court 319 

Saloons  and  the  Peniten- 
tiary   278 

Saloon  Supreme  Example.  39 
Saloon,  The  Eespectable  . 82 

Saloon  Wreckage  . . . 369 

Save  the  Boy  ....  257 
Save  the  Boys  ....  325 
Saved  in  One  Month,  $989,- 

000  308 

Say  the  Kind  Word  Now  . 213 
Schools  and  Prohibition  . 323 
Seeing  the  Saloon  as  It  Is  190 
Selfishness  and  Treason  of 


the  Liquor  Traffic  . . 313 

Shut  the  Door  of  Tempta- 
tion   292 

Slogans  for  Suffrage  . . 384 

Smash  the  Saloon  . . .270 

Smile  of  the  Saloon  Over 

Alaska 289 

Smith,  Gordon  ....  364 
Smith,  Major  Dan  Morgan  78 
Sober  Birmingham  . . . 231 

Sociability  and  Wit  Not 
Dependent  on  Liquor  . 290 
Spoiling  the  Jail  Industry.  303 
Stelzle,  Eev.  Charles  . . 86 

Stone,  W.  S 226 

Stop  the  Banking  Depart- 
ment of  the  Saloon  . . 357 


PAGE 

Sullivan,  Dr.  W.  C.  . . 72 

Sullivan,  John  L.  . . . 216 

Taking  Down  Their  Signs.  299 
Tailings,  Let  Them  Im- 
pound   1 

Taxes  Again  ....  253 
Tax,  If  a Benefit,  Why  the  5 
Testimony  of  the  New 

Converts 219 

The  After-Products  of  Pro- 
hibition ....  251 
Appeal  of  Childhood  . 160 
Art  of  Being  a Cheerful 
Comrade  ....  250 
Bootlegger’s  Wail  . . 349 

Call  to  Public  Spirit  . 392 
Cant  of  Intemperance  . 300 
Changing  Scenery  Under 
Prohibition  . . . 319 

Cheerful  Fighter  . . . 248 

Dead  Who  Die  in  the 

Devil 393 

Devil’s  Catacombs  . . 317 

Devil’s  Twist  . . . 310 

Devil’s  Way  to  Escape 
Weariness  ....  392 
Discipline  that  Kills  . 268 
Dry  Diamond  . . . 329 

Empire  Builder  and  Pro- 
hibition ....  232 
Enormous  Tide  of 
Drunkenness  . . . 298 

Facts  All  Against  the 

Saloon 231 

Father ’s  Sin  in  the  Son ’s 

Eyes 342 

Flaw 315 

Foolery  of  the  Liquor 

Traffic 213 

Future  and  the  Final 
Triumph  is  God  Or- 
dained   151 


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TOPICAL  INDEX,  IN  ALPHABETICAL  ORDER 


PAGE 


The  German  Anti  - Beer  • 
Fanatics  ....  286 
Glory  of  the  Dawn  . .172 

Greatest  Victory  of  All.*  318 
Greed  and  Anarchy  of 
the  Saloon  ....  165 
Great  Eemover  . . . 295 

Growing  Eoll  of  Honor  . 305 
Healthiest  State  in  the 

Union 238 

Home  Wrecker  . . . 398 

How  and  When  . . . 140 

Inglorious  Dead  . . . 271 

Lying  Eeports  Liquor 
Gives  to  the  Brain  . _ 282 
Logic  of  a Broken  Heart  360 
Manly  Man  . . • , 376 

Marvelous  Advance  . .*^30 

Mighty  Momentum  of  ' . 

Prohibition  . . . 18§ 

Monday  Morning  Night- 
mare   224 

New  Farmers’  Bank  in 

Eussia 241 

New  Hiawatha  . . .385 

New  Laundry  Accounts  . 302 
New  Liquor  Cry  . . . 336 

Paramount  Issue  . . 350 

Passing  of  the  Joy-Eider  330 
Passing  of  the  ‘ ‘ Owl  ’ ’ 

Car 337 

Passing  of  the  Saloon  . 198 
Pqst-Office  Prospers  When 
the  Saloon  Dies  . . 256 

Price  of  a Drink  . . 78 

Prohibition  Wave  . . 380 

Eavaging  Demon  . . 362 

Eespeotable  Saloon  . . 82 

Eight  Kind  of  a Gov- 
ernor   230 

Eight  Shall  Win  . . . 397 

Saloon  and  the  Death- 
rate  . . . ...  . 21'8, 


PAGE 

The  Saloon  and  the  Board 

of  Health  ....  238 
Saloon  and  Democracy  . 129 
Saloon  Frog  ....  266 
Saloon  Built  on  “the 
Sins  of  Men  and  the 
Tears  of  Women’’  . 355 
Saloon  Defense  Fund  . 371 
•Saloon  Destroying  the 
Product  of  the  College  393 
Saloon  in  Epigram  . . 157 

Saloon-keeper’s  Bet  . 249 
Saloon  Social  . . . 318 

Saloon,  The  Greed  and 
Anarchy  of  . . . 165 

Saloon,  The  Passing  of 

the 198 

Semi-Barbarous  States  . 349 
South  is  Going  Dry  . . 334 

Spirit  of  the  Eoad  . . 23 

Stock  Show  and  the 


Water  Wagon  . 

. . 362 

Place  to  Get  Money  . 

. . 266 

Shame  of  It  All  . 

, . 185 

Slump  in  Booze  . 

, . 314 

Sorrowful  Case  of 

the 

Shirkers 

. . 310 

Stain  on  “Old  Glory 

’’  . 397 

Taxlayer  vs.  the  Taxpayer  254 

Transformation  of 

the 

Farmers 

. . 252 

True  Liberty  . 

. . 323 

Two  Money  Bags 

. . 234 

Way  Prohibition 

Has 

Euined  Alaska 

. . 240 

Wholesome  Transforma- 

tion  ... 

. . 371 

World  Movement 

. . 204 

World  Moves  . 

. . 373 

There ’s  Power  in 

the 

Woman’s  Ballot  . 

. . 344 

They  are -jGetting  What  is 

Comin^lto  Them 

. . 299 

TOPICAL  INDEX,  IN  ALPHABETICAL  ORDER 


PAGE 


They  Heard  from  Him  . 344 

TOornley,  A.  J 221 

Time  to  Shut  the  Factory.  388 
Too  Big  a Fool  to  Eun  a 

Saloon 394 

Tope,  Dr.  Homer  W.  . . 185 

Trade  Following  the  Flag.  387 
Trinity  Church,  New  York, 
Holds  Up  Clean  Hands  . 368 

Tuttle,  G.  W 217 

Two  Interesting  News  Items  306 

Uncle  Sam  a Gainer  by 
Oregon  Prohibition  . . 304 

Uncle  Sam’s  Love  of  Youth  1 

Vaninkoff,  M 374 

Walters,  Howard  A.  . . 381 

Ward,  George  B.  . . . 231 

War  Purnishing  New  Evi- 
dence   18 

We  are  Steadily  Knocking.  333 
What  Ails  Kansas?  . . 194 

Whatever  the  Weather  . . 343 

When  the  Devil  Was  Sick.  287 
When  the  Stars  Come  Out.  312 


PAGE 

Where  the  Grass  Grows 
Under  Prohibition  . . 236 

Where  to  Look  for  Prohibi- 
tion These  Fanatic  Days  209 
Whisky  at  the  Wheel  . . 352 

Who  Is  Scared  About 

Taxes? 264 

Why  He  Enlisted  . . . 211 

Why  the  Saloon  Man  Hates 
Billy  Sunday  . . . 307 

Wilson,  Bishop  Luther  B..  163 
Will  the  Working  Man  Lose 
His  Job  and  His  Per- 
sonal Liberty  if  the 

Saloons  are  Closed?  . . 86 

Wilson,  Dr.  Clarence  True.  188 
Wops  of  the  Beer  Garden  . 275 
Wbolley,  Hon.  John  G.  . 23 

Woman  and  Her  Deadliest 

Foe 235 

Worse  than  War  . . . 297 

Wounds  and  Death  in  the 

. Drink 250 

Wreckage  of  the  Saloon  : .296 

Yates,  Hon.  Eichard  . . 127 


XV 


AMMUNITION  FOR  FINAL 
DRIVE  ON  BOOZE 


THE  GREAT  COMMONER  ON  REASONS  FOR 
PROHIBITION 

[The  following  address  presents  in  substance  the  line  of 
argument  followed  by  William  Jennings  Bryan  in  the  sixty 
speeches  made  in  Ohio  during  the  week  of  Oct.  25  to 
30,  1915.] 

Opposition  to  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  in- 
toxicating liquors  rests  upon  the  proposition  that 
alcohol  is  a poison  which,  taken  into  the  system, 
weakens  the  body,  impairs  the  strength  of  the 
mind,  and  menaces  the  morals.  This  proposition 
is  either  true  or  false.  If  it  is  false,  then  the 
cause  of  prohibition  fails,  and  not  only  the  cause 
of  prohibition,  but  all  regulation  of  the  liquor 
traffic.  If  this  proposition  is  sound,  it  will  be 
difficult  to  find  a valid  reason  for  permitting  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  alcoholic  liquoi^  as  a 
beverage. 

We  challenge  the  opponents  of  prohibition  to 
meet  us  on  this  fundamental  proposition.  Will 
they  accept  the  challenge'?  No!  Because  all 
history  supports  the  doctrine  that  alcoholic 


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AMMUNITION  FOR  FINAL  DRIVE  ON  BOOZE 


drinks  are  injurious.  If  you  will  consult  your 
Bibles,  you  will  find  that  2,500  years  ago  Daniel, 
a Hebrew  captive  in  Babylon,  asked  that  be 
might  be  permitted  to  prove  the  superiority  of 
water  over  wine.  The  prince  who  was  charged 
with  the  care  of  Daniel  and  his  three  companions 
was  instructed  to  feed  them  with  the  meat  from 
the  King’s  table  and  to  furnish  them  wine  such 
as  the  King  used,  but,  yielding  to  the  eloquent 
appeal  of  Daniel,  the  prince  gave  them  ten  days 
for  the  test,  and  when  the  time  was  up  he  was 
compelled  to  admit  that  Daniel  and  his  com- 
paniona  were  ‘ ‘ fairer  and  fatter  in  flesh  than  all 
the  children  which  did  eat  the  portion  of  the 
King’s  meat.”  From  that  day  to  this  the  test 
has  been  going  on  and  never  once  has  it  been 
decided  in  favor  of.  alcohol. 

But  you  need  not  rest  on  the  experience  of  the 
past;  you  can  test  it  to-day.  Select  one  hundred 
young  men  from  any  country  or  from  any  clime 
—no  matter  under  what  form  of  government 
they  live  or  what  language  they  speak.  Divide 
them  into  groups  of  fifty  each;  let  one  group  use 
alooholie  liquor  and  the  other  group  drink  water 
only,  and  those  who  drink  water  will  win  the 
honors  ill  the  colleges,  take  the  prizes  on  the 
athletic  fields,  and  prove  their  superiority  in 
every  line  of  business. 


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Uncle  Sam^s  Love  of  Youth 

If  you  visit  the  naval  school  at  Annapolis, 
Md.,  you  will  find  there  more  than  eight  hundred 
young  men,  the  pick  of  the  country,  selected  from 
every  congressional  district  in  the  United  States. 
They  are  being  trained  at  Government  expense 
for  Government  service,  and  Uncle  Sam  is  anx- 
ious that  they  shall  show  the  maximum  of  effi- 
ciency and  capacity.  These  young  men  are  not 
allowed  to  use  alcohol  during  their  stay  in  the 
college.  Why?  Because  the  Government  be- 
lieves that  alcohol  is  harmful.  If  the  opponents 
of  prohibition  think  that  the  use  of  alcohol  is  a 
benefit,  why  do  they  not  attack' the  Government’s 
policy  and  compel  the  college  authorities  to  give 
alcohol  to  the  students?  And  if  alcohol  is  in- 
jurious, why  is  not  every  father  and  every 
mother  as  anxious  about  the  welfare  of  a son 
as  Uncle  Sam  is  about  the  welfare  of  the  boys 
intrusted  to  his  care?  But  it  is  not  necessary 
to  multiply  illustrations.  ■ Experience  has  every- 
where and  always  been  against  alcohol.  It  has 
been  not  only  accused  but  convicted  of  being  an 
enemy  of  the  race. 

All  hail  to  the  drink  of  drinks — to  water,  the 
daily  need  of  every  living  thing!  It  ascends 
from  the  earth  in  obedience  to  the  summons  of 
the  sun,  and  descends  in  showers  of  blessings. 
It  gives  of  its  sparkling  beauty  to  the  fragrant 


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flower;  its  alchemy  transmutes  base  clay  into 
golden  grain ; it  is  the  radiant  canvas  upon  which 
the  finger  of  the  Infinite  traces  the  rainbow  of 
promise.  It  is  the  beverage  that  refreshes  and 
brings  no  sorrow  with  it — Jehovah  looked  upon 
it  at  creation’s  dawn  and  said  “It  is  good.” 

Business  World  Against  Intoxicants 

It  is  so  well  known  that  the  use  of  liquor  is 
indefensible  that  the  business  world  is  throwing 
its  influence  against  even  the  moderate  use  of 
alcoholic'  drinks.  The  man  who  drinks  is  the 
last  one  to  find  a job  when  employees  are  wanted 
and  the  first  one  to  lose  Ms  job  when  employees 
'are  being  dismissed.  This  economic  pressure  is 
being  brought  to  bear  against  alcoholic  liquors 
throughout  the  industrial  world.  If  any  of  you 
think  that  drinking  is  a business  advantage  to 
any  man  anywhere,  let  me  suggest  a test  which 
yo'u  can  apply  between  now  and  election  day ; and 
if  your  vote  is  governed  by  the  test,  you  will  vote 
for  ■ prohibition  on  next  Tuesday.  Here  is  the 
test:  Go  to  the  best  friend  you  have  and  ask  him 
for  a recommendation;  tell  him  to  make  it  as 
strong  as  possible.  After  he  has  said  all  the 
good  that  he  can  of  you  let  him  write  at  the  end 
of  the  recommendation  three  words — write  them 
in  red  ink,  so  that  they  will  he  sure  to  be  seen — 
“And  he  drinks.”  Then  take  the  recommenda- 
tion to  any  man  who  has  money  enough  to  em- 


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ploy  another  and  watch  his  face  when  he  reads 
the  recommendation — and  then  wait  for  a job. 
No  brewer,  distiller,  or  saloon-keeper  ever  added 
those  words  to  a recommendation  given  to  a 
friend — find  such  a recommendation  if  you  can. 
If  the  men  who  make  liquor  and  sell  it  know  its 
effect  well  enough  never  to  put  in  a recommenda- 
tion that  the  man  recommended  drinks,  why 
should  anybody  else  think  it  an  advantage  in 
business! 

If  you  think  that  a saloon  helps  a town,  answer 
this  question:  Did  you  ever  know  a “wet”  town 
to  put  the  number  of  saloons  on  any  sign-board 
or  in  any  advertising  literature  ! The  number  of 
banks,  business  houses,  factories,  colleges,  schools 
— all  these  are  mentioned  as  attractions,  but  not 
the  number  of  saloons  or  the  amount  spent  in 
them.  Why?  ■ ’ . 

If  the  use  of  alcoholic  liquor  is  an  injifryand 
if  this  fact  is  universally  known,  why  is  its  sale 
as  a beverage  licensed?  The  arguments  against 
the  saloon  are  as  conclusive  as  the  arguments 
against  alcohol  itself. 

If  a Benefit,  Why  the  Tax? 

Let  me  pass  on  to  you  an  argument  which  was 
given  to  me  by  a retired  farmer  in  southern 
Nebraska.  He  moved  into  a village  to  spend  the 
latter  days  of  his  life  and  soon  after  he  had 
reached  the  village  was  solicited  to  sign  a peti- 


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tion  for  a man  who  wanted  to  open  a saloon 
there.  He  refused  to  sign  the  petition,  and,  when 
asked  for  his  reason,  replied  that  the  town  did 
not  treat  the  saloon-keeper  fairly.  The  applicant 
for  a license  had  heard  many  other  reasons,  but 
never  having  heard  that  one  given  before,  he 
asked  the  man  to  explain.  The  explanation  was 
like  this:  “You  want  to  start  your  saloon  for  the 
benefit  of  the  town,  don’t  you?”  “Yes,”  replied 
the  would-be  saloon-keeper.  “You  think  it  will 
bring  trade  to  the  town  and  improve  business, 
don’t  y-ou?”  “Yes,”  said  the  man  who  wanted 
the.  license.  “Well,”  said  the  farmer,  “if  your 
safimn  will  help  the  town,  draw  trade,  and  im- 
prove business,  they  ought  to  give  you  a bounty 
instead  of  making  you  pay  a high  price  for  the 
privilege  of  starting'  a saloon.  ’ ’ 

Can  yoii  escape  this  logic?  You  know  that  the 
isaloon  is  not  a legitimate  business  in  the  sense 
in  which  you  apply  that  term  to  other  business 
enterprises.  If  a grocer  wants  to  open  a store 
in  your  city,  you  welcome  him  as  you  do  the  man 
who  wants*  to  start  a hardware  store,  a bank,  a 
restaurant,  a butcher  shop,  or  any  other  place  of 
business,  except  the  saloon.  But  if  a man  wants 
to  start  a saloon  you  meet  him  at  the  city  limits 
and  say  to  him,  “You  can  not  open  a saloon  in 
this  city  unless  you  pay  the  city  $1,105  a year, 
and  even  then  you  must  submit  to  certain  re- 
strictions. The  butcher  shop  can  open  at  any 


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hour  in  the  morning,  but  your  saloon  can  not 
open  before  a certain  hour.  The  restaurant  can 
stay  open  as  long  as  it  wants  to  at  night,  but 
your  saloon  must  close  at  a certain  hour.  Every- 
body else  can  sell  anything  else  to  anybody  at 
any  time,  but  if  you  open  a saloon  in  this  town  you 
must  not  only  comply  with  the  restrictions  named, 
but  you  must  agree  not  to  sell  to  anybody  under 
age  or  overdrunk.”  Why  do  you  make  this  dis- 
tinction between  the  men  engaged  in  other  busi- 
nesses and  the  man  running  a saloon?  Because 
you  recognize  that  the  saloon  is  an  injuryjiand, 
therefore,  you  subject  it  to  ditferent  treatment 
from  that  accorded  people  in  other  business^ 

The  Absurdity  of  License 

How  absurd  it  is  to  license  a man  to  .make 
men  drunk  and  then  fine  men  for  getting  drunk. 
I beard  this  illustrated  many  years  ago,  and  I 
know  of  no  better  illustration  of  the  inconsis- 
tency of  the  policy.  A man  said  that  it  was  like 
licensing  a person  td_^pread  the  itch  through  a 
town  and  then  fining  the  people  for  scratcbing.% 

Suppose  a man  applied  for  a license  to  spread 
bog  cholera  throughout  this  country,  would  you 
give  him  a license?  No.  He  could  not  bring 
enough  money  into  the  country  to  purchase  a 
license  to  spread  disease  among  the  bogs.  Why, 
then,  will  you  license  a man  to  spread  disease 
among  human  beings — disease  that  destroys  the 


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body,  robs  the  mind  of  its  energy,  and  under- 
mines the  morals  of  men! 

What  excuse  do  the  representatives  of  the 
brewery,  distillery,  and  saloon  give  for  opposing 
prohibition?  They  formerly  insisted  that  any 
interference  with  the  sale  of  alcoholic  liquor  was 
an  attack  upon  individual  rights,  but  that  argu- 
ment has  been  so  completely  answered  that  we 
do  not  hear  much  of  the  personal-liberty  plea 
now.  No  man  can  assert  as  a right  that  which 
interferes  with  the  equal  rights  of  others,  neither 
can  any  man  insist  that  respect  for  his  rights 
require  the  toleration  of  a system  that  invades 
the  more  sacred  rights  of  others.*  No  man  can 
claim  that  his  right  to  drink  intoxicating  liquor 
requires  the  licensing'  of  a saloon  which  pollutes 
■ the  localitj-  in  which  it  is  situated  and  brings 
w^t  and.  misery  and  violence  into  the  homes 
aroun4  it.. 

Ahd  I cMl  you  to  witness  that  the  brewer  and 
the  distiller  understand  the  saloon;  they  are  not 
willing  to  have  -a  saloon  located  near  them.  As 
a rule,  they  live  in  the  fashionable  part  of  the 
city  and  would  not  sign  a petition  for  the  loca- 
tion of  a saloon  near  where  their  families  reside. 
They  know  it  would  reduce  the  value  of  their 
property  and  subject  their  children  to  an  objec- 
tionable environment.  No;  they  will  not  have  a 
saloon  near  them,  but  they  will  locate  their 
saloons  among  the  poor,  knowing  full  well  when 


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they  do  so  that  their  saloons  will  absorb  the 
money  that  their  patrons  ought  to  spend  on  wife 
and  children.  They  not  only  impoverish  the  poor 
and  multiply  their  sufferings,  but  they  increase 
the  death-rate  among  the  children.  Who  will 
defend  them  before  the  bar  of  God  when  they 
are  confronted  with  the  violation  of  the  com- 
mandment “Thou  shalt  not  kill?” 

As  TO  Compensation 

And  yet  we  are  now  told  that  society  ought  to 
reimburse  the  liquor  dealer  if  prohibition  causes 
him  any  financial  loss.  Superlative  impudence! 
There  are  two  answers  to  this  insolent  demand.. 
One  is  that  prohibition  does  not  take  frOm  the 
liquor  dealer  one  foot  of  land  that  he  now  owns ; 
it  does  not  remove  one  brick  from  any  finUding- 
that  he  occupies.  It  simply  requires^  hiiq  ta'^t 
his  land  and  building  to  a different  use.^  Will 
any  man  complain  that  you  lessen  the  value  of 
his  gun  because  you  say  that  he  must  use  it  on 
game  and  not  on  human  beings? 

If  you  close  a saloon,  the  building  stands  there 
as  useful  as  ever,  with  the  possible  exception  of 
the  fixtures.  Let  the  saloon-keeper  turn  his 
building  into  a bakery  and  sell  bread  to  the  peo- 
ple who  have  gone  hungry  because  the  money 
that  ought  to  have  bought  bread  has  been  used 
for  drink.  Will  the  brewer  suffer?  His  build- 
ing can  be  used  for  other  purposes.  In  prohibi- 


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tion  States  breweries  and  distilleries  have  been 
converted  into  packing-houses,  pickle  factories, 
and  into  plants  for  the  manufacture  of  non-alco- 
holic drinks.  At  Salem,  Ore.,  a brewery  is  now 
used  for  the  manufacture  of  loganberry  juice, 
the  substitute  for  grape  juice  in  that  state.  I 
believe  in  conversion.  The  most  important  con- 
version is  the  conversion  of  the  individual  from 
sin  to  righteousness.  Among  the  nations  the 
most  important  conversion  is  the  promised  con- 
version of  the  swords  into  plowshares,  and  in 
business  I know  of  nothing  better  than  the  con- 
version of  an  alcohol  plant  into  a factory  for 
the  production  of  something  which  is  helpful  and 
wholesome.  ' 

But  there  is  another  answer  to  make  to  the 
demand  for  compensation.  Let  the  liquor  dealer 
compensate  the  mother  for  the  son  he  has  taken 
from  her;  let  him  compensate  the  wife  for  the 
husband  *of  whom  he  has  robbed  her ; let  him 
compensate  the  children  for  the  father  whom  he 
has  first  transformed  into  a brute  and  then 
driven  to  suicide.  Let  him  compensate  those 
whom  he  has  wronged  by  restoring  to  them  the 
priceless  value  of  homes  ruined  and  lives 
wrecked,  and  then  society  will  be  glad  to  com- 
pensate him  for  whatever  pecuniary  loss  he  may 
suffer  by  the  closing  of  a business  which  he  knew 
to  be  harmful — a business  which  can  not  thrive 
except  as  the  community  suffers. 


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Does  the  liquor  dealer  intend  to  make  restitu- 
tion for  what  he  has  taken  in  the  past?  No! 
He  is  not  even  willing  to  protect  society  from 
the  evils  which  daily  flow  from  his  business. 

Let  Them  Impound  the  Tailings 

A few  years  ago  I was  traveling  in  the  moun- 
tains of  Arizona  and  my  attention  was  called  to 
a muddy  pond  by  the  side  of  the  road.  It  was 
so  different  from  the  clear  mountain  pool  that 
I inquired  about  it,  and  this  was  the  explana- 
tion: In  the  early  days  the  stamp  mills  poured 
the  tailings  into  the  mountain  streams,  bu^  the 
people  below  complained  that  the  water  which 
they  had  to  use  was  polluted.  This  complaint 
resulted  in  the  passage  of  a law  that  compelled 
the  stamp  mill  to  impound  its  tailings,  and  now 
when  the  precious  metal  is  extracted  Trom  the 
rocks  the  worthless  stuff  that  remains  is  im- 
pounded and  the  waters  that  flow  down’-  the 
mountain  streams  are  pure. 

Why  not  make  the  brewer,  the  distiller,  and 
the  saloon-keeper  impound  their  tailings?  They 
draw  the  young  men  of  the  country  into  their 
places  of  business,  they  crush  them,  they  dis- 
figure them,  they  extract  from  them  all  that  is 
precious,  and  then  they  pour  the  tailings  out 
upon  society — they  make  society  pay  for  the  in- 
sane, the  pauper,  and  the  criminal.  Instead  of 
asking  society  to  compensate  them  for  the  small 


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pecuniary  loss  that  they  may  suffer  from  the 
abolishing  of  the  manufacture  and  the  sale  of 
intoxicating  liquors  they  ought  to  be  grateful 
for  the  favors  which  have  been  shown  them. 
They  have  by  far  the  best  of  the  bargain,  even 
on  the  low  plane  of  dollars  and  cents.  They 
have  taken  from  society  immeasurably  more 
than  they  have  paid  back  to  society. 

To  Business  Men 

• A word  to  the  business  men  of  Ohio.  Why  do 
you  enter  into  a copartnership  with  the  brewer, 
distiller,  and  saloon-keeper  against  the  people 
with  whom  you  deal!  Your  trade,  especially 
that  of  Cincinnati,  is  with  the  territory  south  of 
•you.  The 'city  of  Cincinnati  built  a railroad  into 
the  South  for  the  purpose  of  developing  com- 
merce^  with  that  section.  The  Southern  States 
with  -v^hich  Ohio  has  business  dealings  are  now 
dry,  with  the  exception  of  Kentucky,  and  in  that 
State  a large  majority  of  the  counties  are  dry, 
Kentucky  having  the  county  unit,  which  Ohio 
abolished  last  year.  In  the  State  of  Ohio  504,000 
voted  for  prohibition  last  year,  and  yet  a con- 
siderable majority  of  the  large  business  men  of 
the  State  have  been  unwise  enough  to  enter  into 
copartnership  with  the  saloon,  a business  which 
is  not  only  the  open  enemy  of  the  home  and  a 
corrupting  influence  in  politics,  but  is  destructive 
of  economic  strength  and  efficiency. 


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A year  ago  the  business  men  of  the  larger 
cities  of  Ohio  joined  the  liquor  interests  in  dis- 
franchising the  farmers  of  the  State.  You  then 
had  the  county  unit  and  the  farmer  had  a voice 
in  determining  whether  saloons  should  be  licensed 
in  the  county,  hut  you  have  taken  that  right  from 
him  at  the  bidding  of  the  liquor  interests.  You 
have  returned  to  the  city  unit,  and  instead  of 
limiting  the  sale  of  liquor  to  those  living  in  the 
city — that  is,  to  those  who  are  responsihlo  for 
the  granting  of  the  license — you  permit  a saloon- 
keeper in  a town  to  sell  to  the  inhabitants  of  all 
the  country  round  about.  You  allow  the  saloon- 
keeper to  fill  a country  boy  with  alcoholic  liquor 
and  send  him  out  into  the  country  to  spread 
terror  in  his  neighborhood,  and  yet  you  deny  a 
vote  to  those  whose  peace  is  disturbed  and  whose 
lives  are  menaced.  - • » 

The  Saloon  a Nuisance 

Why  is  a slaughter-house  a nuisanpe?  Because 
its  noisome  odors  can  not  be  confined  to  the  land 
on  which  it  is  situated.  And  who  has  a right 
to  complain  of  a slaughter-house?  Everyone  has 
a right  to  complain  as  soon  as  the  odors  of  the 
slaughter-house  reach  him.  And  why  is  a saloon 
a nuisance?  Because  its  evil  influences  can  not 
be  confined  to  the  block  in  which  it  is  located  or 
to  the  city  which  licenses  it  to  do  business.  And 
who  has  a right  to  complain  of  a saloon?  Every- 


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one  who  lives  within  the  radius  of  its  evil  in- 
fluence— everyone  who  suffers  from  the  use  of» 
the  liquor  which  it  sells. 

You  need  not  be  surprized  if  these  disfran- 
chised farmers  administer  political  punishment 
to  those  who  have  deprived  them  of  the  right  to 
protect  themselves  against  the  saloon.  Last  year 
their  choice  was  between  the  county  unit  and 
State  prohibition;  to-day  with  the  county  unit 
gone  their  only  hope  is  in  State  prohibition, 
which  establishes  a still  larger  unit  and  gives 
security  over  a greater  area. 

4* 

4 

An  Injustice  to  Gteeman- Americans 

I 

A word  also  to  the  German-Americans.  A 
great  many  of  the  citizens  of  Ohio  are  of  Ger- 
rnan  birth  or  ancestry,  and  an  effort  has  been 
made  to  identify  them  with  the  liquor  interests. 
The  German-American  brewers  have  done  injus- 
tice ta-  those  'of  their  name  and  race  by  the  at- 
tempt to  make  it  appear  that  prohibition  was 
an  attack  upon  all  Germau- Americans^  whereas 
it  is  simply  an  attack  upon  a business.  The 
liquor  question  raises  a moral  issue,  and  no  real 
friend  of  the  German-American  will  attempt  to 
draw  a line  between  him  and  the  rest  of  the 
country  on  a moral  question.  Already  the  Ger- 
man-American organizations  are  giving  voice  to 
the  rising  protest  against  the  selfish  and  sordid 
attempt  which  those  engaged  in  the  liquor  busi- 


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ness  have  made  to  turn  the  liquor  question  into 
a race  question.  The  Gennan-Amerioan  Alliance 
in  New  York  has  within  a year  adopted  a resolu- 
tion demanding  that  representatives  of  the  liquor 
traffic  speak  for  themselves  and  not  for  the  Ger- 
man-American  Alliance  when  they  appear  before 
legislative  bodies.  And  the  German-American 
Alliance  of  the  United  States  at  its  national 
meeting  at  San  Francisco  a few  months  ago, 
instead  of  declaring  against  prohibition,  declared 
in  favor  of  reforming  the  saloon. 

The  alliance  is  to  be  congratulated  upon  its  re- 
fusal to  be  made  the  mouthpiece  of  the  brewers 
^in  their  fight  against  prohibition,  but  the  plea 
for  the  reform  of  the  saloon  comes  too  late.  It 
might  have  been  effective  a few  years  ago,  but 
the  saloon  has  sinned  away  its  day  of  grace.  It 
made  itself  the  ally  of  the  gambling-house  and 
the  brothel;  it  allowed  itself  to  become  a bureau 
of  information  on  crimes  and  the  center  of  every 
political  and  social  disease.  It  is  too  late  to 
begin  the  work  of  purification;  if  it  is,  to  be 
washed  and  made  clean,  let  it  be  at  the"  morgue 
when  it  lies  in  state  with  its  victims. 

“Blind  Tigers” 

The  opponents  of  prohibition,  having  been 
driven  from  every  other  position,  have  fallen 
back  upon  their  final  stand,  namely,  that  prohibi- 
tion does  not  prohibit.%  They  tell  us  that  the  law 


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can  not  be  enforced ; that  liquor  will  be  sold  any- 
how. They  are  the  only  element  of  society  that 
announces  in  advance  that  it  will  not  obey  the 
law ; it  is  the  only  element  that  boasts  of  lawless- 
#ness,  but  even  here  the  facts  are  a complete  an- 
swer. Statistics  show  that  in  this  State  there  is 
more  illicit  selling  in  wet  counties  than  in  dry 
counties.  Only  a few  months  ago  the  saloon 
keepers  of  Cleveland  sent  a delegation  to  the 
governor  to  complain  of  the  selling  of  liquor 
without  license.  Those  who  paid  the  license  pro- 
tested against  those  who  were  selling  without 
sharing  the  burden  of  the  tax. 

But  thp  very  language  which  the  advocates  o9i 
.the  saloon  use  in  describing  illicit  sales  shows 
that  they  understand  the  nature  of  their  busi- 
ness. When  they  speak  of  the  place  where  liquor 
is  sold  without  license,  what  name  do  they  use! 
Do  they  calj  the  place  a blind  sheep  or  a blind 
goatl  No!  They  call  it  a. “blind  tiger.*  They 
name  it  after,  an  animal  which  is  ferocious  by 
nature — they  know  the  nature  of  the  saloon. 
Well,  if  a tiger  was  after  my  boy,  I would  rather 
have  it  a blind  tiger  than  one  which  could  see. 
Wouldn’t  you?  If  a tiger  is  blind,  you  must  look 
it  up ; if  it  can  see,  it  can  look  you  up.  The  man 
who  sells  without  license  must  dodge  around  and 
keep  himself  concealed,  but  the  licensed  saloon 
plants  itself  in  the  most  conspicuous  place  and 
sends  out  its  invitation  to  all. 


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Likened  to  a Rattlesnake 

One  of  the  men  imported  into  Ohio  to  defend 
the  saloon  has  gone  even  further  than  those  who 
talk  of  blind  tigers.  He  asks,  “Would  you  not 
rather  keep  a rattlesnake  in  a glass  case  than 
allow  it  to  run  loose  in  the  alley?”  But  why 
keep  a rattlesnake  at  all?  Why  not  kill  it?  How 
many  families  would  he  willing  to  keep  a rattle- 
snake in  the  house,  even  in  a glass  case?  It 
must  have  something  to  eat,  and  those  who  feed 
it  are  always  in  danger  of  being  bitten.  But  to 
liken  the  saloon  to  a rattlesnake — ^what  a confes- 
sion! And  what  an  apt  illustration  it  is.  It 
must  have  been  by  inadvertence  that  the  speaker 
selected  man’s  earliest  enemy  on  earth,  for  was 
it  not  the  serpent  that  deceived  the  first  pair  in 
the  garden  ?<»  And  has  it  not  lived  ever  since 
under  the  curse  then  pronounced  rfpon  it?  Is 
there  not  additional  reason  to-day  why  the  seed 
of  the  woman  should  bruise  this  serpent’s  head? 
Is  not  woman  to-day  the  greatest  enemy  of  the 
saloon?  All  praise  to  the  good  women  of  the 
country  whose  love  for  their  children  and  in- 
terest in  their  country  make  them  an  increasing 
influence  on  the  side  of  temperance  -and  in  sup- 
port of  all  legislation  which  has  for  its  object  the 
protection  of  society  from  the  effects  of  alcoholic 
liquor. 

The  voters  of  Ohio  have  an  advantage  to-day 


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over  those  who  voted  on  this  subject  a year  ag'o. 
A year  ago  the  people  of  this  State  knew  how 
ruinous  alcohol  is  to  the  individual,  to  the  home, 
and  to  society.  They  knew  of  the  enormous  bur- 
den which  the  worshipers  of  the  god  of  drink 
fasten  upon  the  country.  Two  billions  and  a half 
a year  for  intoxicating  liquor.^  Think  of  it. 
Nearly  twice  the  cost  of  our  Federal  Govern- 
ment,  and  nearly  three  times  the  cost  of  educa- 
tion in  this  country  from  the  kindergarten  to  the* 
university.  Is  not  this  appalling?  In  two  years 
the  drink  bill  would  gridiron  the  United  States 
with  macadam  highways  twelve  miles  apart  east 
and  west,  north  and  south,  and  yet  instead  of  this 
money  being  used  for  good  roads  it  is  being  used 
to  pave  the  way  to  perdition. 

Wab  Fuenishes  New  Evidence 

Yes;  a year  ago  the  voters  of  Ohio  knew  the 
arguments  that  can  be  made  against  alcohol  in 
time  of  p;pace ; but  during  the  last  twelve  months 
the  war-'in  Europe  has  thrown  a ghastly  light 
upon  the  evils  of  intemperance.  Whatever  dif- 
ference of  opinion  there  may  be  as  to  thje  cause 
of  the  war  or  as  to  its  conduct,  all  must  agree 
that  the  nations  at  war  believe  that  they  are  in 
a life  and  death  struggle  and  all  are  appealing  to 
the  patriotism  of  their  people.  And  yet  patriot- 
ism, that  impulse,  intangible,  invisible,  but  eter- 
nal, which  has  throughout  the  ages  led  countless 


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millions  to  offer  tliemselves  a saorifice  upon  their 
country’s  altar,  is  no  match  for  the  appetite  for 
drink.  Loyalty  to  Gambrinus  and  Bacchus  and 
Barleycorn  is  greater  than  loyalty  to  King  or% 
Kaiser  or  Czar.  The  belligerent  nations  have 
been  compelled  to  give  attention  to  the  subject 
of  drink.  Eussia  has  abolished  the  sale  of  alco- 
hol throughout  her  vast  domain;  France  has  leg- 
islated against  the  sale  of  absinthe;  Germany 
has  lessened  the  hours  of  the  saloon  and  lowered 
the  alcoholic  content  in  beer;  and  Great  Britain 
has  laid  restriction  after  restriction  upon  the  sa- 
loon, lessening  the  hours  and  forbidding  treat- 
ing. Why  shall  we  not  learn  without  war  what 
the  war  has  taught  the  European  nations  ? 

The  Best  Pbepabation 

There  is  talk  of  preparedness  and  some  urge 
us  to  get  ready  for  war.  I do  not  agree  with 
those  who  think  we  are  in  danger,  but  I am  will- 
ing to  join  them  in  one  kind  of  preparation.  If 
this  Nation  is  ever  attacked,  our  supfbine  need 
will  be  men — men  whose  brains-  are  clear;  men 
whose  nerves  are  steady ; men  who  have  no  appe- 
tite that  will  rob  them  of  their  love  of  country  in 
the  Nation’s  crucial  hour.  Why  not  prepare  by 
driving  alcohol  out  of  the  United  States?  Then 
if  an  attack  comes,  every  American  will  be  a 
man  ready  to  do  a man’s  duty  and  their  bodies 
will  be  a wall  around  our  land. 


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Gkowth  of  Prohibition 

And  now  a word  as  to  politics.  I am  a Demo- 
crat. I began  making  Democratic  speeches  thirty- 
five  years  ago  and  have  been  in  every  congres- 
sional campaign  since,  except  the  campaign  of 
1898,  when  I was  in  the  Army.  I have  been  on 
the  firing  line  all  these  years— the  only  peace  I 
have  had  was  when  I was  a soldier.  I have  been 
in  national  politics  for  twenty-five  years  and  it  is 
now  nineteen  years  since  I commenced  to  run  for 
President.  I have  been  interested  in  reforms  and 
have  rejoiced  to  see  some  reforms  successful, 
but  it  has  taken  a long  time.  It  took  twenty-one 
years  to  secure  the  popular  election  of  United 
States  Senators ; it  took  nearly  eighteen  years  to 
secure  an  income-tax  amendment  to  the  Consti- 
tutiohj  and  the  fight  for  the  initiative  and  refer- 
endum , has  been  going  on  nearly  that  long. 
Events  are  moving  more  rapidly  now,  but  I have 
never  known  any  reform  to  grow  as  fast  in  five 
years  as  prohibition  has  grown  during  the  last  ^ 
five  years,  and  it  has  grown  more  rapidly  in  the 
last  year  than  in  the  four  years  preceding.  We 
now  have  nineteen  dry  States  and  ten  of  them% 
have  gone  dry  within  the  last  eighteen  months. 

No  Democrat  need  apologize  for  being  in  favor 
of  prohibition.  Of  the  nineteen  prohibition  States 
ten  of  them  go  Democratic  at  every  election,  and 
other  Democratic  States  will  soon  be  added  to 


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the  list.  Republicans  used  to  make  fun  of  us 
Democrats ; they  used  to  say  that  they  could  tell 
a Democrat  by  the  color  of  his  nose  or  by  the 
wobble  of  his  walk.*  They  can  not  make  fun  of 
us  now.  The  Democratic  States  are  leading  in 
the  fight  and  the  Republicans  must  help  to  make 
Ohio  dry  if  they  want  to  be  in  the  same  class 
with  the  Democrats.  It  will  be  a benefit  to  both 
parties  to  get  rid  of  the  liquor  element,  which 
owes  allegiance  to  no  party  and  is  interested  in 
no  principles  of  government.  It  is  solely  con- 
cerned with  the  money  to  be  derived  from  the 
sale  of  liquor.  The  time  has  come  to  rid  all  the 
parties  of  the  domination  of  this  element  which 
disgraces  the  party  while  it  controls  it  and  be- 
trays it  if  its  control  is  resisted.  Let  me  make 
a proposition  to  the  Republicans  of  Ohio.  If  you 
will  do  your  best  to  drive  the  liquor  interests 
out  of  your  party,  I will  do  what  I can  to  rid 
the  Democratic  Party  of  the  liquor  interests — 
and  this  is  not  a matter  of  sentiment ; it  is  a mat- 
ter of  necessity.  There  are  great  questions  to 
be  dealt  with  and  we  can  not  expect  any  aid  from 
those  whose  only  interest  is  in  the  liquor  busi- 
ness. And  then,  too,  if  one  party  expels  the 
liquor  interest  the  other  party  is  compelled  to 
do  so  as  a matter  of  self-protection.  If  we  drive 
the  liquor  interests  out  of  the  Democratic  Party 
and  the  Republican  Party  receives  them,  then  the 
Republican  Party  will  get  all  of  our  bad  men. 


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and  Heaven  knows  it  has  enough  bad  men  al- 
ready. If,  on  the  other  hand,  the  Republic,an 
Party  drives  out  the  liquor  interests  and  we  wel- 
come them,  we  will  get  the  bad  men  of  the  Re- 
publican Party — and  we  haven’t  room  for  any 
more  bad  men  than  we  now  have. 

Meet  Combination  With  Coopeeation 

Why  not  meet  combination  with  cooperation? 
The  liquor  interests  combine  against  society; 
why  should  not  the  Democrats  and  Republicans 
cooperate  against  the  liquor  interests!  Let  us 
for  one  day  lay  aside  the  tariff  question,  the 
trust  question,  the  money  question,  and  other  na- 
tional questions  upon  which  we  differ  and  unite 
to  free  the  State  from  the  manufacture  and  sale 
of  alcoholic  liquor,  and  then  we  shall  be  ready 
for  the  larger  task  which  is  not  many  years  off 
— the  task  of  ridding  the  Nation  of  alcohol,  its 
worst  enemy,  and  of  the  liquor  traffic,  its  great- 
est evil. 


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THE  SPIRIT  OF  THE  ROAD  * 

I HAVE  been  listening  to  the  voice  of  the  great- 
est of  the  prophets.  Twenty-fire  hundred  years 
have  shorn  it  of  no  resonance.  The  freshness  of 
the  unspoiled  intellectual  morning  of  the  world 
still  breathes  in  every  cadence.  The  urge  of 
elemental  power  still  vibrates  in  every  tone. 

You,  too,  have  heard  it  many  times.  But  it 
will  be  good  spiritual  strategy  for  us  to  open  up 
the  sounding  galleries  of  our  cloyed  and  tired 
modem  minds  together,  and  let  this  ancient, 
level-headed  Titan  pitch  the  opening  note  of  this 
convention. 

His  thesis  is  a perfected  democracy.  His  con- 
tention is  that  democratic  government  means  dis- 
tribution of  right,  of  power,  of  opportunity,  of 
responsibility,  and  that  distribution  is  fundamen- 
tally a road  problem.  His  objective  is  the  mer- 
ger of  religion  and  politics,  for  the  development 
of  a Giod-centered  civilization  wherein  “all  the 
nations  of  the  earth  shall  be  blest,”  and  which 
already  is  crudely  and  potentially  anticipated  in 
cosmopolitan  America. 

Listen  and  let  me  read  to  you  article  one,  sec- 
tion one,  of  an  inspired  constitution  for  a Chris- 
tian democracy,  in  any  age: 

“A  high  road  shall  there  be.  It  shall  be  called 

* From  an  address  delivered  by  the  Hon.  John  G.  Woolley,  of 
Madison,  Wisconsin. 


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the  road  set  apart  for  righteous  dealing.  The 
foul  thing  shall  have  no  legal  foothold  there. 
Wayfaring  men,  tho  fools,  shall  not  go  wrong 
thereby.  ’ ’ 

We  can  not  make  the  whole  wide  plain  of  life 
fool-proof,  to  be  sure — and  the  fool  we  have  al- 
ways with  us.  We  can  not  make  it  brute-proof 
either — and  many  men,  as  yet,  are  mere  noxious 
animals.  We  can  not  compel  men  to  be  clean, 
honest,  sober,  industrious.  But  we  can  keep  an 
authoritative  suggestion  of  clean,  fair,  forward- 
looking  character  constantly  and  increasingly  be- 
fore the  eyes  of  the  people  and  beneath  their 
feet,  in  the  lay  and  upkeep  of  the  King’s  high- 
way, flying,  from  end  to  end,  the  bannered  warn- 
ing of  the  law:  “No  thoroughfare  for  thieves.” 

Teue  Meeidiax  Base 

There  you  have  the  true  meridian  base  line  for 
democratic  social  engineering,  certified  by  ele- 
mentary • common  sense,  the  plain  facts  of  his- 
tory and  the  highest  Scriptural  authority. 

Rocks  are  the  bones  of  any  nation.  Soils  are 
the  muscles  • where  the  fires  of  progress  never 
die.  But  roads  are  the  arteries,  veins  and  capil- 
laries that  cleanse,  nourish  and  knit  together  the 
human  particles  and  make  the  body  politic  a 
living  soul. 

Roads  rule  this  world — not  kings  nor  con- 
gresses, not  courts  nor  constables;  not  ships  nor 


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soldiers.  The  road  is  the  only  royal  line  in  a 
democracy,  the  only  legislature  that  never 
changes,  the  only  court  that  never  does  injustice, 
the  only  police  force  that  never  sleeps,  the  only 
army  that  never  quits-,  the  first  aid  to  the  re- 
demption of  any  nation,  the  exodus  from  stagna- 
tion in  any  society,  the  call  from  savagery  in  any 
tribe,  the  high  priest  of  prosperity,  after  the 
order  of  Melchisedec,  without  beginning  of  days 
or  end  of  life.  The  road  is  the  umpire  in  every 
war,  and  when  the  new  map  is  made,  it  simply 
pushes  on  its  great  campaign  of  help,  hope, 
brotherhood,  efficiency  and  peace. 

The  Eoman  empire  has  been  dead  for  centuries. 
But  Roman  roads  still  stretch  their  mighty  arms 
in  full  beneficent  efficiency  untouched  by  time; 
for  kings  may  come  and  dynasties  may  go,  but 
roads  reign  on  forever. 

The  union  of  England  and  Scotland,  two  hun- 
dred years  ago,  was  not  effected  by  the  fighting 
of  their  armies  or  the  bargaining  of  their  kings, 
but  by  the  laying  of  the  great  north  road  from 
London  to  Edinburgh  and  on  northward  to  the 
sea. 

Civilization  is  first  of  all  a good  roads  propo- 
sition. Highways  have  always  determined  the 
location  of  colonies,  the  swarming  of  new  com- 
munities, and  the  increase  and  utilization  of  the 
public  wealth.  The  seven  seas  and  the  rivers 
that  make  into  them  are  the  inter-continental 


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highway,  laid  by  the  Almighty,  in  the  htart  and 
members  of  the  globe,  to  suggest  and  effect  a 
world-wide  inter-soul  commerce — to  organize  the 
great  whirling,  windswept,  wastrel  world  and 
fulfil  it.  “Thy  way  is  in  the  great  water!”  says 
the  Psalmist. 


Right  of  Conscience 

So  New  England  came  to  the  new  world  and 
planted  the  political  right  of  conscience  around 
the  rim  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  up  the  Connecti- 
cut, the  Merrimac,  the  Kennebec,  the  Penobscot, 
because  the  great,  cosmic,  level,  self-repairing 
Atlantic  road  was  open  thither.  So  French  sim- 
plicity and  thrift  crept  up  the  St.  Lawrence, 
while  La  Salle,  Vancouver,  Marquette  and  Joliet 
sought  out  the  head  waters  of  the  Ohio  and  the 
Mississippi.  So  imperturbable  Dutch  thorough- 
ness possest  New  Amsterdam,  the  Hudson  and 
the  Mohawk.  So  the  Cavaliers  took  up  the 
watershed  of  the  James.  So  the  Catholics  sailed 
into  the  Patapsco  with  the  flag  of  ancient  and  in- 
fallible authority.  And  so  the  Quakers  pre- 
empted the  Delaware  in  the  name  of  divine  and 
human  friendliness,  the  finest  political  doctrine 
ever  framed. 

Then,  for  a hundred  and  fifty  years,  the  'West- 
ering star  of  empire  hung  aground  upon  the  Ap- 
palachian mountain  tops,  and  the  dead  hand  of 
hereditary  privilege  held  us  hard  and  fast,  across 


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three  thousand  miles  of  sea,  because  it  had  the 
power  of  the  road. 

Then  we  began  to  stretch  the  sea  by  building 
roads.  Quaker  Philadelphia,  Dutch  New  York 
and  Puritan  Boston  ran  together,  on  the  great 
turnpike.  As  the  nineteenth  century  was  open- 
ing, Henry  Clay,  the  Columbus  of  internal  im- 
provements in  America,  promoted  the  national 
road  from  the  District  of  Columbia  to  the  Ohio 
Eiver.  Then  Cumberland  Gap  was  negotiated 
into  the  heart  of  the  Southwest,  and  the  barren 
briars  of  barbarism  began  to  bear  the  roses  of 
religion  and  reform.  Then  the  Santa  Fe  trail 
bored  through  the  wilderness,  the  desert  and  the 
Rocky  Mountains,  into  the  land  of  gold. , Then 
the  Oregon  trail  crept  down  Snake  Eiver  to  the 
mouth  of  the  Columbia,  and  a new  race  of  men, 
Americans,  a new  form  of  government, . a repre- 
sentative democracy,  a new  nation,  with  a new 
name,  America,  were  bom,  and  a new  world  was 
in  new  hands,  for  good  or  ill. 

From  these  instinctive  beginnings  of  American 
development,  up  to  the  baffling  perplexities  of 
these  days  of  ethical  adventure,  it  has  been  the 
magnetism  of  the  road  that  drew  and  drilled  and 
ruled  the  people. 

Our  internal  history  is  a romance  of  trapper’s 
trails  and  corduroy  bridges  across  the  marshes, 
then  of  canals  and  railroads,  then  of  telegraphs, 
telephones  and  pipe  lines,  then  of  the  miracle  of 


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aeroplanes,  and  the  Phoebus  Chariots  of  har- 
nessed lightning  flashes  racing  across  the  sky, 
and  now,  at  last,  of  the  welding  of  the  two 
oceans  at  Panama  into  the  greatest  act  of  crea- 
tive energy  since  the  morning  stars  slid  singing 
down  their  shining  ways.  The  conquest  of  the 
sea,  the  earth,  the  sky,  and  thus  the  organization 
of  the  new  world  of  matter,  mind  and  spirit,  al- 
ways proceeding  by  the  slow,  sure,  unceasing, 
unswerving  law  of  the  road. 

Epoch  op  Bettek  Eoads 

The  march  of  the  continent,  up  from  savagery 
to  the  right  of  time  in  world-wide  civilization, 
has  camped  upon  three  economic  levels — the 
road,  more  roads,  better  roads — every  new  alti- 
tude discovering  new  horizons  of  vision,  power, 
and  obligation.  This  is  the  epoch  of  better  roads. 
The  frontier  has  gone.  The  whole  land  is  a grid- 
iron of  what  Isaiah  calls  “paths  to  dwell  in,” 
and  the  problem  of  the  union  of  politics,  econom- 
ics, and  religion — the  real  business  of  democracy 
— takes  on  new  phases,  higher  and  more  difficult 
phases.  Night  has  fallen  on  the  Babel  tower  of 
quantitative  America.  It  is  the  morning  dawn 
of  qualitative  democracy,  in  matter  and  in  spirit. 

In  the  Southwest,  awhile  ago,  I saw  acres  of 
melons  going  to  waste  in  the  fields,  for  lack  of 
transportation.  In  the  Northwest  I saw  the  fruit 
of  many  orchards  rotting  on  the  ground.  In  the 


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West  I saw  them  burning  corn  and  hay  for  fuel. 
The  stoves  and  swine  were  eating  up  the  choicest 
products  of  the  soil,  for  which  men,  women  and 
children  were  sulfering  in  the  cities,  while  the  in- 
corporated swine  of  Wall  Street  were  eating  out 
the  vitals  of  the  railroads  themselves,  that  were 
the  keys  to  the  problem.  That  situation  calls 
simply  for  better  roads,  and  the  answer  is  com- 
ing visibly  and  rapidly,  in  lower  grades,  fewer 
curves,  more  double  track,  less  stock- jobbing, 
honester  railroading,  so  that  the  shivering  prai- 
ries may  have  coal  at  call  and  in  abundance,  and 
the  hot  homes  of  the  city  cheaper  bread  and 
meat  and  fruit,  freer  freedom,  more  remunera- 
tive labor,  more  abundant  life. 

The  Christian  era  was  launched  as  an  agitation 
for  a better  road.  When  John,  the  forerunner, 
unlimbered  the  field  battery  of  his  mighty  elo- 
quence, on  the  bank  of  the  Jordan,  his  challenge 
was  not  to  greater  ceremonial  devotion,  to 
tighten  up  the  cork  jackets  of  the  elect,  but  to 
aggressive,  broad,  concrete,  fundamental  political 
action,  to  save  and  to  prevent  the  wastage  of 
humanity.  He  did  not  call  his  country  to  more 
washings,  fastings,  public  prayers.  They  had  al- 
ready washed  the  color  out  of  their  religion,  even 
as  we  have  done.  They  had  already  fasted  the 
red  blood  out  of  their  atrophied  convictions,  as 
we  do  here.  They  had  already  degraded  prayer 
to  a bad  habit,  as  some  do  now.  They  had  al- 


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ready  tithed  mint,  anise  and  cummin,  until  the 
dry  rot  of  moldy  formalism  had  eaten  all  the 
bread  com  of  civic  virility,  as  even  now  we  do. 
They  had  in  effect  set  up  the  working  maxim 
that  scapegoats  exalt  a nation,  and  laid  the  . 
foundation  of  the  modern  doctrine,  that  a crime 
that  controls  votes  and  pays  a liberal  rake-off  to  ! 
the  revenue  can  be  taxed  and  protected  as  a 
business,  with  no  great  reproach  to  any  people. 
They  had  made  the  degradation  of  the  masses 
natural  and  automatic,  as  we  do  to-day. 

Cast  Up  the  Highway 

“Cast  up  the  highway!”  That  was  the  Jordan 
statesman’s  proposition.  Break  the  bandit  busi- 
nesses that  prey  on  manhood,  on  the  King’s  high- 
way. Close  up  the  lurking  places  of  the  villages 
— the  “blind  pigs” — where  human  hyenas  puff 
at  piety  and  pity  and  lie  in  wait  to  catch  the 
weak  and  poor.  Move  up  the  accent  on  the  cov- 
enant, from  rams  and  new  moons  and  sabbaths 
and  assemblies  and  incense  and  nonsense,  and, 
on  the  honor  of  a godly  man  and  to  the  honor  of 
a manly  God,  make  good  as  “peculiar”  demo- 
crats ! 

It  was  no  accident  that  the  eloquent  reformer 
whom  Jesus  called  “more  than  a prophet” — a 
constructive  statesman — centered  his  appeal  on 
“the  way  of  the  Lord,”  not  a new  definition  of 
his  indefinable  character,  not  a new  creed  con- 


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cerning  his  unfathomable  mind,  not  a new  liturgy 
wherewith  to  worship  in  a church,  but  the  old 
way,  laid  out  in  nature,  charted  in  revelation, 
but  ruinous  and  perilous,  then  and  now,  from 
lack  of  patriotic  work  and  care^ — transportation 
facilities  in  order,  help,  mercy,  justice,  peace, 
good-will  among  men,  so  that  His  covenant  can 
be  seen,  “running  with  the  land,”  from  the  capi- 
tal to  the  last  outlying  colony,  “from  the  rivers 
to  the  ends  of  the  earth.”  Make  his  paths 
straight.  Level  down  the  hard  hills.  Level  up 
the  rough  valleys.  Gather  out  the  stones  of 
stumbling  and  offense.  Make  straight  living  the 
line  of  least  resistance.  Make  poverty,  monopoly, 
corruption,  ignorance,  vice  and  crime  abnormal 
and  difficult.  Make  the  public  policy  a visibly 
wide-open  hospitality  to  health,  happiness  and  a 
fair  chance  all  around.  So  that  all  men — every- 
body— the  weak,  the  poor,  the  reckless,  the  de- 
fective, as  well  as  the  strong,  the  rich,  the  pru- 
dent, the  well-born,  shall  hear  “wisdom  cry  on 
the  street,’^  and  see  the  salvation  of  God  in  the 
life-line  of  civil  government,  in  actual,  physical 
operation  before  their  eyes,  their  feet,  their  im- 
agination and  their  will.  Make  temptation,  the 
subtlest,  busiest  spirit  of  the  earth,  cease  to 
wait  exclusively  on  failure,  and  employ  it  as  the 
servant  of  more  abundant  life. 

The  road  is  the  most  inclusive  and  far-reach- 
ing fact  in  the  history  of  civilization,  and  the 


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most  constant  and  comprehensive  answer  to  all 
the  major  problems  of  democracy.  Look  at  the 
map!  The  backward  countries  are  the  roadless 
countries. 


Multiplies  Efficiency 

The  road  is  the  supreme  psychologist  of  public 
teachers,  and  prime  minister  of  public  rule.  It 
is  the  main  stream  of  popular  tendency.  It  is 
the  field-marshal  of  enterprise.  It  fixes  prices; 
it  opens  markets;  it  raises  social  standards;  it 
concentrates  public  sentiment;  it  multiplies,  effi- 
ciency; it  conserves  energy;  it  even  regulates  the 
law  of  supply  and  demand. 

The  good  roads  movement  now  sweeping  over 
the  land  is  not  the  selfishness  of  automobile  own- 
ers or  manufacturers.  It  proceeds  from  the 
highest  patriotism  and  on  the  deepest  economic 
law.  The  government  can  not  break  and  enter  the 
hearts  and  homes  and  business  of  men,  to  con- 
trol and  improve  them.  But  it  can  make  a good 
road,  mentally,  morally  and  materially,  and  so 
maintain  and  honor  it  as,  in  a great  measure,  to 
rule  the  land  by  suggestion — the  greatest,  justest, 
gentlest  force  on  earth,  or  in  heaven,  over  the 
minds,  manners  and  motives  of  men. 

It  goes  without  saying  that  the  big  business  of 
democracy,  or  Christianity,  which  is  the  same 
thing,  is  not  force  but  service,  and  the  road  is  a 
vast,  permanent,  public,  physical  expression  of 


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tliat  idea.  That  is  what  a road  is,  service.  It 
does  not  preach  nor  drive,  chide  nor  punish.  It 
simply  suggests  and  waits  and  serves.  It  is  the 
patient,  irresistible  meekness  that  is  to  inherit 
the  earth.  It  is  the  master  key  to  good  govern- 
ment. They  say  that  the  enactment  of  public 
sentiment  into  law  ought  to  be  slowed  down,  to 
wait  on  the  temper  for  enforcement.  That  is 
true.  But  the  unit  of  enforcing  ability  is  the  road 
and  not  the  remote  corners  of  the  community, 
where,  rightly  and  necessarily,  the  parent,  pas- 
tor, physician,  teacher,  are  the  body-servants  of 
progress. 

They  say  that  Prohibition  does  not  prohibit, 
and  neither  does  it,  in  the  secluded  places,  where 
piety,  philanthropy,  morality  and  affection  are 
deployed  in  the  long  siege  for  human  redemp- 
tion. But  on  the  road  the  sovereign  is  a weak- 
ling if  he  does  not  have  his  way. 

Road  for  Politics 

The  school  is  for  instruction  and  discipline. 
The  church  is  for  moral  suasion  and  for  prayer. 
The  home  is  for  love  and  admonition.  The  hos- 
pital is  for  mercy,  patience,  skill.  The  shop  is 
for  bargaining  and  fair  exchange.  The  farm  is 
for  laborious  faith  in  God.  But  the  road  is  for 
politics  and  thin-lipped  law  and  power. 

The  cry  of  the  world  is  for  help.  Everybody 
needs  it.  Everybody  can  give  it.  The  call  is 


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loudest  from  tlie  neediest.  The  obligation  of  the 
strongest  is  the  greatest.  If  you  could  lay  your 
ear  upon  the  bosom  of  humanity  to-night,  you 
would  hear  at  every  thrust  of  the  great,  sad 
heart  the  syllable : Help ! Help ! Help ! And  it  is 
the  highest  duty  and  the  deepest  joy  of  life  to 
respond  in  sane,  sure  ways,  without  imposition 
on  the  one  hand  or  impertinence  on  the  other. 
And,  speaking  broadly,  the  only  scheme  of  help 
that  is  certain  not  to  be  a blunder  or  a tyranny 
is  the  road,  which  does  nothing  but  suggest  and 
help,  and  helps  only  those  who  try  to  help  them- 
selves. How  can  I help?  That  is  the  great 
question  of  manliness,  of  love,  of  patriotism,  of 
religion.  Not,  How  can  I rebuke?  That  is  the 
petty  prayer  of  the  prig  and  the  Pharisee.  How 
can  I help  ? That  is  the  riddle  of  social  existence ; 
and  the  road  is  the  answer.  Being  rich,  how  can 
I help  with  money?  Being  poor,  how  can  I help 
without  money?  Being  strong  and  untempted, 
how  can  I transfuse  strength  into  the  stricken 
soul?  Being  a husband,  how  can  I help  my  wife? 
Being  a parent,  how  can  I help  my  child?  The 
needy  one  is,  perhaps,  your  son.  You  begot  him 
without  his  will.  You  owe  him  everything.  You 
love  him  perfectly.  YThat  can  you  do?  Nothing 
much,  except  to  keep  the  home  life  high  going  and 
early  set  his  feet  in  a plain  road  that  leads  some- 
where. Nagging  will  do  no  good.  Beating  will 
not  avail.  Money  will  probably  ruin  him.  The 


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road  is  the  answer.  It  is  your  country.  There, 
too,  the  road  is  the  answer.  Great  men  answer 
in  great  ways  and  lesser  men  in  lesser  ways,  each 
after  his  kind.  Stevenson  answered  with  the 
railroad  and  revolutionized  the  business  of  the 
world.  Morse  answered  with  the  telegraph — a 
wire  road  for  correspondence,  that  obliterated 
time  and  distance.  Bell  answered  with  the  tele- 
phone, a road  of  semi-precious  metal  that  would 
carry  the  very  tones  of  anger,  truth  and  sympa- 
thy. Field  answered  with  the  submarine  cable — 
an  insulated  road  on  the  bottom  of  the  sea,  that 
dragged  the  continents  from  their  far  moorings 
and  made  them  sail  together  like  a fleet.  Mar- 
coni answered  with  the  wireless — a daring  road 
in  the  magic  of  the  ether,  that  brought  the  deso- 
late, wild  wastes  of  the  sea  within  call  of  shore 
and  ships  and  succor,  Roentgen  answered  with 
the  X-Ray — a road  of  violet  light  through  flesh 
and  wood  and  stone. 

Salvation  foe  Alaska 

Alaska  lay  for  centuries  in  a welter  of  worth- 
less wealth.  Intrepid  explorers  surprized  its 
secrets  of  gold,  silver,  copper,  coal,  water  power, 
wood  and  soil,  and  returned  to  pound  upon  the 
doors  of  the  capital,  saying,  “Salvation  for  Alas- 
ka!” And  only  just  now,  after  half  a century. 
Congress  answers  with  an  appropriation  of  forty 


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millions  and  an  order  to  the  executive : “A  high- 
way shall  be  there.” 

The  world  lay  darkling  in  superstition  and  the 
farce  of  futile  forms.  Jesus  Christ  walked  forth 
from  the  wilderness  and  the  darkness  and,  with 
the  calmness  of  omnipotence,  said:  “I  am  the 
way” — a road  through  service  to  knowledge  and 
universal  dominion.  This  law  of  the  road  ante- 
dates America,  Jesus,  John,  Rome,  and  all  the 
prophets.  It  is  written  large  in  the  very  article 
of  evolution.  Primitive  plants  have  no  sap  chan- 
nels. The  difference  between  an  oak  tree  and  a 
cactus  is  that  the  oak,  responding  to  various  pos- 
itive and  negative  conditions  of  light  and  heat, 
has  developed  a wonderful  internal  road  system 
for  the  distribution  of  the  vital  protoplasm  of 
the  earth.  So  the  oak  lords  it  in  the  forest,  mills, 
buildings,  and  furnishings  of  the  world,  while  the 
cactus  hoards  its  scanty  drops  with  barely  life 
enough  to  protest  with  its  thorns. 

Now  let  us  move  up  abruptly  to  the  summit  of 
the  subject — the  ethics  of  the  road,  where,  hap- 
pily, the  whole  nation  is  beginning  to  arrive.  I 
have  indulged  myself,  perhaps,  at  too  great 
length  in  these  material  and  historical  reflections 
in  order  to  lay  in  the  broadest  and  deepest  foun- 
dation for  the  particular  argument  to  which  the 
circumstances  of  my  own  stormy  life  have  com- 
mitted me  and  which  is  the  life  blood  of  this  con- 
vention. 


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The  highway  of  American  life,  instead  of  being 
the  universal  inspirer  and  helper  of  the  people, 
debases,  misleads,  mires,  maims  and  murders 
multitudes.  The  pathway  to  prosperity  and  in- 
dependence has  too  many  blind  alleys,  that  turn 
out  to  the  scrap-heap,  the  prison,  the  mad-house 
and  the  grave.  And  just  as  along  with  every 
muscle  of  the  body  runs  an  attendant  nerve  of 
clean,  gray  brains  to  give  it  power,  purpose  and 
moral  direction,  so  there  is  a broadening  white 
line  of  public  sentiment  that  is  the  soul  of  the 
road,  and  in  these  culminating,  fascinating  days 
lights  up  the  highway  philosophy  with  the  legend, 
seen  so  often  now,  in  cities,  shops,  ships  and  rail- 
way stations,  “Safety  First.” 

Must  Be  Made  Safe 

The  road,  where  men  must  walk  in  weakness, 
weariness  and  ignorance,  must  be  made  safe.  It 
must  be  made  free  from  preventable  sink-holes, 
where  life,  fortune  and  character  stick  and 
smother.  We,  of  orderly  lives  and  steady  habits, 
familiar  with  every  rut  and  rotten  plank  in  the 
brief  ways  we  travel,  are  apt  to  forget  the  stream 
of  men  behind,  who  do  not  know,  who  can  not 
know,  who  travel  in  the  dark  and  in  emergency 
— the  reckless,  the  defective,  and,  to  our  shame, 
to  known  bloody,  ravenous,  gray  wolves  of  human 
kind,  that  make  loot  and  lechery  the  purpose  and 
business  of  the  road.  But  if  prompter  delivery  of 


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mail  and  merchandise,  and  to  diminish  the  tally  of 
crusht  bodies  of  men,  broken  legs  of  horses  and 
shattered  wheels  of  wagons,  are  important,  as  cer- 
tainly they  are,  the  blighted  prospects,  dissipated 
ideals,  broken  homes  and  stranded  souls  of  men 
are  more  important,  and  these  are  equally  perils 
of  the  road.  For  while  only  the  strong  and  gifted 
few  break  new  roads,  all  men  follow  roads.  They 
are  created  to  do  it.  The  running-gear  of  human 
movement  is  flanged,  so  to  speak,  like  car  wheels, 
and  tends  to  keep  to  the  way.  And  it  is  by  no 
means  an  extravagant  generalization  to  say  that, 
as  the  road  is,  so  are  the  people,  in  any  country. 
And  a Christian  road  is  indispensable  to  Chris- 
tian civilization. 

By  “a  Christian  road”  I mean  simply  a road 
that  tends  to  save  the  lost  and  the  confused.  Any 
railway  manager  will  tell  you  that  even  neces- 
sary switches  are  a peril  to  the  line  and  so  are 
sparingly  put  in.  But  the  highway  of  American 
life  fairly  bristles  with  open  sidings,  falsely  show- 
ing safety  lights,  that  run,  point  blank,  into  the 
ditch,  without  one  atom  of  counterbalancing  util- 
ity. I have  crawled  out  of  the  wreck  to  devote 
my  broken  life  against  one  of  them — the  worst  of 
them — but  your  clear  minds  will  make  the  anal- 
ogy to  them  all. 

The  ghastly  tragedy  of  organized,  standard- 
ized, commercialized  vice  on  the  one  hand,  with 
the  pitiful  farce  of  empirical  charity  on  the 


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other,  is,  at  the  last  analysis,  but  a story  of  the 
degradation  of  the  road,  where  character,  as  well 
as  feet  and  hoofs  and  wheels,  must  travel. 

Saloon  Supbeme  Example 

The  saloon  is  the  supreme  example,  because  it 
is  the  only  licensed  turnstile  into  the  criminal 
dumps  and  pitfalls  that  make  up  the  hell  of 
human  damnation  while  alive.  It  is  peculiarly  a 
road  problem.  Where  the  most  men  and  the 
weakest  men  and  boys  must  pass,  the  painted 
door  is  set  swinging,  to  catch  the  poor,  the  ignor- 
ant, the  reckless,  the  homesick,  the  disoouraged, 
and  silently  shut  them  into  the*  reek  of  a leprosy 
that  eats  off  the  fingers  of  opportunity,  eats 
away  the  lips  of  truth,  eats  out  the  eyes  of  am- 
bition and  the  heart  of  hope.  Just  at  the  point 
where  Christian  civilization  ought  to  brace  and 
cheer  a faltering  man,  it  shunts  him  downward 
by  the  legalization  of  the  saloon. 

The  liquor  trade,  with  a brazen,  brutal  magni- 
ficence of  effrontery,  offers  to  submit  to  police 
surveillance  its  organized  boy-baiting,  wife-beat- 
ing, larceny  and  homicide,  and  pay  any  price  for 
the  infamy,  because  it  gets  an  easement  on  the 
public  road,  and  gets  the  power  of  the  road  to 
draw  or  drive  the  human  game  to  its  decoy.  But 
two  hundred  and  fifty  years  of  failure  have  dem- 
onstrated that  the  public  cowardice  that  will 
make  such  a bargain  with  such  a gang  to  do  such 


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a business  is  incapable  of  enforcing  even  the 
ridiculous  restrictions  it  imposes. 

The  liquor  trade  asserts  that  outlawry  swells 
its  sales.  It  lies,  like  the  premeditated  criminal 
it  is,  for  it  fights  at  any  odds  for  a license,  at  any 
price  and  on  any  terms  of  infamy  to  itself,  be- 
cause the  right  of  way  goes  with  it,  which  is  the 
chief  asset  of  any  footpad. 

Lies  of  Liquoe  Trade 

The  liquor  trade  asserts  that  Prohibition  breeds 
“blind  pigs.”  It  lies.  Licensing  areas  are  the 
habitat  of  such  defective  swine.  But,  at  any 
rate,  they  are  not  creatures  of  the  road  at  all, 
but  of  the  back  lots,  cellars,  caves.  It  is  the  road 
that  we  must  fight  for  first,  and  decent  politics 
can  keep  that  clear.  There  are  still  wolves  in  the 
woods,  but  they  dare  not  hunt  in  the  road.  There 
are  still  rattlesnakes  in  the  rocks,  but  they  do  not 
coil  in  the  street.  There  will  still  be  saloons  in 
the  cellars,  but  they  are  skurrying  from  the  road. 
There  will  be  potstills  in  the  mountains,  but  not 
in  the  road.  There  will  still  be  decanters  on  the 
sideboards  of  careless  or  selfish  people.  But  the 
road  ought  to  be  and  is  going  to  be  made  safe  from 
the  whole  treacherous  thing.  “No  lion  shall  be 
there,  nor  shall  any  noxious  beasts  go  up  there- 
on. They  shall  not  be  found  there.  But  the  re- 
deemed shall  walk  there  safely,  and  the  ransomed 


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of  the  Lord  shall  return  to  Zion  with  songs  and 
everlasting  joy  upon  their  heads.” 

The  twentieth  century  opens  a new  vision 
toward  the  fulfilment  of  that  prophecy.  The  old 

politics  represented  by . But  stop:  I will 

not  defile  this  hour  with  their  names.  The  old 
politics  flouts  that  vision,  and  sticks  to  the  old 
level,  serving  and  being  served  by  the  saloon. 
But  the  new  politics,  represented  by  such  men  as 
Daniels,  Cummins,  Clapp,  Sheppard,  Kitchin, 
Kenyon,  Webb,  Bryan  and  Woodrow  Wilson,  al- 
ready mounts  the  rise  to  plant  Old  Glory  on  the 
heights  of  progress.  The  decent  citizen  must 
meet  the  liquor  traffic  there  at  the  forks  of  the 
road,  and  make  good,  with  local.  State  and  na- 
tional Prohibition  and  officers  to  match. 

I congratulate  my  country  that  it  is  now  in  the 
act  of  accepting  the  argument  here  made.  The 
licensed  disregard  of  life  and  character  has  be- 
come abhorrent  to  decent  minds.  The  pusillani- 
mous prostitution  of  the  police  power  to  the  use 
of  spoilsmen  and  the  threats  and  demands  of 
public  poisoners  is  passing  forever.  The  arrival 
of  this  great,  elastic,  non-partizan  league  of 
Christian  men,  at  the  front  of  the  age-long  fight 
for  a safe  road,  has  set  us  free  from  the  drag  of 
old  partyism,  and  new  partyism  as  well,  and 
opened  wide  the  everlasting  doors  of  political  op- 
portunity to  independent  voters  everywhere.  In- 
telligent Christian  cooperation  saturates  the  old 


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guard  of  Prohibition.  Conservative,  business 
America  is  lining  up  for  “the  safety  of  the 
people,”  which  is  the  highest  law,  and  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ,  that  has  led  us  all  for 
twenty  centuries,  still  leads. 


ALL  THE  TIDES  SWEEPING  TOWARD 
PROHIBITION  * 

This  is  the  new  epoch — please  God,  the  last 
epoch — in  the  fight  against  the  liquor  saloon  in 
America.  The  reinforcements  that  have  come  to 
us  in  the  last  few  years  have  changed  the  whole 
outlook  for  the  temperance  refoim.  Only  a few 
years  ago  when  we  went  into  a town  to  carry  it 
for  no-license,  or  into  a State  to  canvass  for  Pro- 
hibition, we  not  only  had  to  fight  the  saloon — 
that  is  dead  easy.  I do  not  know  anything  easier 
to  whip  than  a liquor  saloon  if  you  can  get  it  by 
itself.  It  has  nothing  to  say  for  itself,  and  it  has 
no  brains  with  which  to  say  it. 

But  we  never  had  a chance  to  fight  the  liquor 
saloon  alone  anywhere  until  very  recently.  The 
most  powerful  and  respectable  business  forces  in 
every  community  were  arrayed  with  it.  The  big 
merchant  was  always  against  us;  the  big  hanker 
was  against  us;  the  big  real  estate  man  who 
wanted  the  town  to  boom  was  on  the  other  side; 

* From  an  address  by  Dr.  Lonis  Albert  Banks. 


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if  there  was  a man  there  who  owned  a mill  or 
factory,  and  employed  a lot  of  labor,  he  also  was 
against  us.  Oh,  there  were  rare  exceptions,  but 
they  were  rare,  like  white  crows.  And  in  all  our 
early  temperance  victories  we  were  compelled  to 
win  our  fight  over  these  most  powerful  and  re- 
spectable business  influences  in  every  community. 

Now,  if  you  will  take  the  country  over  as  a whole, 
this  situation  is  entirely  changed.  Let  me  give 
you  a signal  illustration  of  that  fact.  I was  in 
the  LaSalle  Hotel,  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  when 
the  National  Council  of  Safety  met  there  for  sev- 
eral days  in  their  annual  meeting.  There  were 
five  hundred  representative  business  men  from 
all  parts  of  the  country.  They  represented  firms 
and  corporations  that  employ  more  than  a mil- 
lion men.  Now  they  were  not  a band  of  humani- 
tarians, there  wasn’t  a preacher  among  them, 
not  a sociological  reformer.  They  were  just  five 
hundred  hard-headed  business  men  out  after  the 
dollar,  and  they  were  there  to  counsel  together 
how  they  might  safeguard  their  business  so  as  to 
make  more  money.  On  the  last  day  of  their  ses- 
sion a resolution  was  introduced  which  awoke 
more  enthusiasm  and  aroused  more  earnest  dis- 
cussion than  anything  else  they  talked  about,  and 
yet  every  speech  was  for  it,  and  when  it  came  to 
a vote  it  carried  unanimously.  That  resolution 
was  a declaration  that  they  would  absolutely 
eliminate  strong  drink  from  every  one  of  their 


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more  tlian  one  million  employees,  and  voiced 
their  enmity  to  the  liquor  saloon.  | 

My  friends,  you  could  not  possibly  have  passed 
a resolution  like  that  in  a business  convention  of 
that  sort  ten  years  ago.  But  these  men  were 
eager  and  alert  to  pass  it.  And  that  is  the  ex- 
pected thing  these  days.  Take  the  case  of  the 
Pittsburgh  (Pa.)  Board  of  Trade,  which  a few 
months  ago,  with  great  enthusiasm  and  cheers, 
passed  a resolution  petitioning  Congress  to  sub- 
mit national  Prohibition  to  the  States  for  ratifica- 
tion. I venture  the  assertion  that  if,  even  six  or 
seven  years  ago,  such  a thing  had  been  at- 
tempted, you  could  not  have  got  into  the  Pitts- 
burgh Board  of  Trade  with  that  resolution  with 
a kit  of  burglars’  tools. 

What  has  made  this  wonderful  change  in  the 
attitude  of  the  large  business  interests  of  this 
country  toward  the  saloons? 

Well,  it  has  come  about  through  certain  very 
definite  and  simple  reasons  which  appeal  at  once 
to  your  common  sense,  and  which  show  that  this 
change  of  alignment  was  imperative  on  the  part 
of  business  people  and  in  the  very  nature  of 
things  will  be  permanent.  It  has  been  brought 
about  through  a changed  attitude  of  the  public 
mind  in  this  country  in  the  last  two  decades 
toward  men  and  women  and  children.  This 
changed  public  sentiment  concerning  the  worth 
of  the  average  individual  has  crystallized  into 


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employers’  liability  laws,  which  are  now  all  but 
universal  in  America.  These  laws  have  changed 
the  conditions  under  which  most  lines  of  business 
can  succeed.  For  instance,  only  a few  years 
ago  it  was  a great  deal  cheaper  in  any  part  of 
the  country  to  grind  up  a lot  of  people  in  a mill 
or  factory  every  year  than  it  was  to  put  in  safety 
appliances,  and  they  did  it,  too.  Unless  a man 
was  really  a good  man,  who  looked  at  the  matter 
from  a brotherly  standpoint,  he  let  accidents  take 
care  of  themselves,  and  he  took  the  shortest  cut 
to  the  most  dollars.  When  there  was  an  accident 
in  his  mill  or  factory  and  people  were  hurt,  or 
some  one  was  killed,  he  felt  bad  about  it,  of 
course;  he  was  a man,  he  was  human,  and  he  felt 
sorry,  and  looked  solemn,  and  very  piously  called 
it  the  providence  of  God,  and  let  it  go  at  that. 
But  now  things  are  different  in  almost  any  part 
of  the  country ; if  a man  is  hurt  in  a mill  or 
factory,  the  firm  that  owns  it  has  to  foot  the  bill. 
If  a man  is  killed  there,  the  widow  comes  in  and 
collects  five  or  ten  or  fifteen,  and  I know  a lot 
of  cases  this  last  year  where  she  got  twenty 
thousand  dollars  for  him. 

Now,  you  see,  that  cuts  right  straight  at  the 
root  of  profits.  It  limits  the  amount  in  dividends 
at  the  end  of  the  year,  and  it  has  changed  the 
business  man’s  theology  all  over  this  country. 
They  have  a lot  to  say  in  the  newspapers  about 
how  we  preachers  have  been  changing  our  theol- 


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ogy,  but  we  are  standpatters  compared  to  the 
way  the  business  men  have  been  changing  their 
theology  in  the  last  ten  years  in  this  country. 
Why,  the  man  that  only  a few  years  ago,  when 
there  was  an  accident  in  his  mill  and  some  one 
was  killed,  was  ready  to  call  it  the  providence  of 
God  and  try  to  forget  it — he  won’t  stand  for  that 
at  all  now.  He  wants  to  know  what’s  back  of 
that  providence  of  God  that  killed  that  man,  that 
he  has  got  to  go  down  in  his  pocketbook  and  pay 
for.  You  see  the  point,  don’t  you?  I can  as- 
sure you  that  he  sees  the  point. 

Well,  as  soon  as  these  laws  began  to  pass  in  a 
number  of  the  States,  we  began  to  have  a very 
earnest  investigation  made  into  the  question  of 
accidents,  and  we  soon  found  that  there  were 
some  two  million  injuries  in  our  mills  and  fac- 
tories every  year,  and  that  some  thirty-five  thou- 
sand people  were  killed  annually  in  these  acci- 
dents. 

Then  the  business  interests  of  the  country  be- 
gan to  make  a very  careful  investigation  into 
what  caused  accidents,  and  they  soon  found  out, 
what  many  of  us  have  been  sure  of  for  a long 
time,  that  more  than  three-fourths  of  the  trails 
ran  straight  back  from  the  accident  to  the  saloon 
door.  As  soon  as  the  business  people,  under  this 
new  regime,  were  sure  of  the  truth  of  that  fact, 
we  began  to  have  a third  kind  of  temperance 
meetings  held  all  over  the  United  States.  We 


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have  had  two  kinds  for  a long  while.  One  of 
them  was  attended  by  sweet-faced,  pious-looking 
women,  with  little  white  ribbons  tied  in  the  but- 
tonhole of  their  coats  or  pinned  on  the  front  of 
their  dresses,  and  the  other  was  attended  mostly 
by  preachers,  who  met  in  synods,  and  presby- 
teries, and  conferences,  and  passed  resolutions 
and  offered  prayer.  With  those  two  kinds  of 
temperance  meetings  you  have  been  long  fa- 
miliar. 

But  during  the  last  ten  years,  and  particularly 
during  the  last  five  years,  we  have  had  multi- 
plied a hundred  to  one  a new  kind  of  temperance 
meetings  in  every  State  in  the  Union — meetings 
where  there  were  no  preachers  and  no  women. 
This  new  order  of  temperance  meetings  is  at- 
tended by  railroad  directors,  and  directors  of 
steam  mills,  and  great  manufacturing  establish- 
ments, trustees  of  mining  interests,  and  great 
lumber  plants,  and  all  sorts  of  business  confer- 
ences and  conventions.  Why,  my  friends,  you 
can’t  get  together  a lot  of  business  men  any- 
where to-day,  not  even  excepting  the  brewers, 
who  will  not  talk  more  temperance  than  anything 
else  while  they  are  together.  Now  all  this  is 
hurrying  us  to  National  Prohibition. 

Every  psychological  tide  in  our  modern  life  is 
to-day  sweeping  toward  Prohibition.  Take  that 
cry  for  efficiency  which  is  now  on  everybody’s 
tongue  and  on  everybody’s  pen.  It  is  new,  mod- 


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ern,  up-to-date.  None  of  you  can  remember  that 
back  of  five  years  ago  you  ever  saw  in  any  great 
magazines,  or  a powerful  newspaper,  a serious 
article  on  that  question  of  human  efficiency,  as 
we  now  emphasize  that  phrase.  It  has  come  up 
out  of  the  increased  cost  of  living  in  our  day,  out 
of  the  added  pressure  on  our  modern  life,  which 
has  driven  us  to  a scientific  attitude  toward  life, 
a determined  effort  to  find  out  just  how  much 
human  force  there  is  in  a man  or  a woman,  and 
to  get  it  all  out,  and  not  let  any  of  it  go  to  waste, 
and  if  we  find  any  of  it  is  going  to  waste,  to  stop 
the  leak  at  any  cost.  That  is  the  modem  atti- 
tude toward  life.  If  you  want  to  see  it  at  its 
climax,  you  must  go  across  the  ocean  where  men 
are  fighting  for  their  lives  There  you  will  see  it 
raised  to  the  highest  power.  This  cruel  war  over 
the  seas  is  a great  temperance  lesson  and  a great 
temperance  gain.  It  is  stupendous.  There  is 
nothing  like  it  in  all  history 

At  the  beginning  of  the  war  Lord  Kitchener 
declared  that  whatever  else  was  sent  to  English 
soldiers,  there  would  not  be  a drop  of  strong 
drink.  If  he  could  have  organized  the  English 
working  men  on  the  same  basis,  England  would 
have  been  in  an  infinitely  happier  condition  to- 
day, and  we  would  not  have  Lloyd  George  utter- 
ing his  desperate  cry  that  England  is  fighting 
three  enemies : Germany,  Austria  and  drink,  and 
that  “drink  is  the  worst  of  the  lot”;  on  which 


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our  own  Mr.  Bryan  very  shrewdly  comments  that 
England  has  found  out  that  the  aeroplane  that 
drops  bombs  from  above  and  the  submarine  that 
shoots  torpedoes  from  beneath,  bad  as  they  are, 
are  not  nearly  so  dangerous  as  the  schooners 
that  slide  across  their  own  English  bars.  It  is 
the  opinion  of  the  leading  public  men  of  England 
that  she  must  come  shortly  to  absolute  Prohibi- 
tion, and  in  that  she  is  only  following  the  ex- 
ample of  other  nations. 

France  has  been  breeding  a peculiarly  idiotic 
race  of  drunkards  with  that  strange  drink  of 
hers,  absinthe,  for  many  years.  Her  medical  and 
scientific  people  have  thundered  against  it,  but 
nothing  practical  was  accomplished  until  they 
came  up  against  the  wall  of  the  German  army, 
and  had  to  have  men  with  steady  nerves,  who 
could  see  straight,  and  shoot  straight,  or  the  na- 
tion must  die.  Then  it  only  took  a few  hours  for 
the  government  to  abolish  that  drink  for  the  war. 
Since  then  the  French  Congress  have  abolished  it 
forever,  and  are  prohibiting  all  kinds  of  intoxi- 
cating drinks  for  the  rest  of  the  war. 

Some  of  you  remember  how  only  a few  years 
ago  it  was  the  world  sensation  for  many  days 
when  the  Kaiser  went  dry.  He  got  scared  about 
the  drunkenness  of  his  officers  in  the  army,  and 
became  a teetotaler  even  from  beer.  He  preached 
total  abstinence  from  one  end  of  Germany  to  the 
other.  When  the  war  broke  out,  they  soon  locked 


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up  all  their  distilleries  and  cut  down  their  brew- 
ers to  half  strength  in  their  beer.  Since  then 
one  thing  after  another  has  been  eliminated,  until 
that  half-strength  beer  is  all  there  is  left. 

But  Russia  leads  the  procession.  Never  since 
that  other  Czar,  sixty  years  ago,  set  50,000,000 
of  serfs  free  with  one  ukase,  has  there  been  any- 
thing to  compare  with  the  work  of  the  present 
Czar  in  the  redemption  of  Russia  from  strong 
drink.  When  the  Czar  closed  every  saloon  in  the 
empire  at  the  beginning  of  the  mobilization  of 
troops,  it  was  thought  by  himself  and  by  every- 
body else  to  be  only  a temporary  expedient.  But 
a wonderful  thing  happened.  You  see,  over  there 
where  the  government  bought  the  grain  from  the 
farmers  and  brewed  and  distilled  the  liquor  as 
a government  proposition,  and  sold  it  in  the 
same  way,  when  the  Czar  closed  all  these  saloons 
there  was  no  liquor  left  to  blind-tiger  or  boot-leg 
within  the  country.  Well,  it  only  takes  about  a 
week  to  soak  all  the  drunkards  out  in  a nation 
if  they  can’t  get  any  more  liquor.  The  second 
week  they  are  pretty  nervous  and  restless  and 
uneasy.  The  third  week  they  are  powerful 
empty  and  hungry,  and  begin  to  look  for  a job. 
As  millions  of  men  were  going  away  to  war,  there 
were  plenty  of  jobs  to  go  around. 

So  the  actual  result  was  that  by  the  beginning 
of  the  second  month  every  drunkard’s  family  in 
all  Russia  was  getting  three  square  meals  a day. 


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The  men  were  industrious  and  happy,  the  women 
were  more  smiling  and  cheerful  than  they  had 
been  since  the  honeymoon.  The  children  had 
their  faces  washed,  the  towns  were  cleaning  up, 
and  the  Jails  were  emptying,  for  nobody  was 
being  arrested  in  Eussia.^  And  this  good  news 
came  in  to  the  Czar  from  all  over  the  country. 
During  the  second  month  deputations  came  to  see 
him  from  every  big  town  in  the  empire,  praising 
him  and  begging  him  to  continue  the  good  work. 
And  as  week  after  week  passed  with  the  news 
getting  brighter  each  week,  he  had  a vision  that 
it  was  the  great  opportunity  of  his  career  to  do  a 
lasting  good  for  his  people  and  at  the  end  of  the 
third  month  he  sent  forth  that  final  ukase  declar- 
ing it  to  be  the  governmental  policy  of  Eussia 
henceforth  that  alcoholic  drinks  shall  be  forever 
prohibited  from  the  Eussian  Empire.  That  is 
the  greatest  single  act  for  human  betterment  that 
has  occurred  in  this  world  since  any  of  us  were 
born.  And  now  comes  the  Finance  Minister  of 
Eussia  to  show  us  that  in  six  months  under  Pro- 
hibition, even  while  bearing  the  fearful  burden 
of  war,  the  people  of  Eussia  have  laid  away 
more  money  in  the  savings  banks  than  they  ever 
did  in  a whole  year  in  time  of  peace  in  the  days 
of  the  saloon.  It  is  the  miracle  of  the  century. 
Now  this  is  working  everywhere.  Eumania 
has  put  away  half  her  saloons  within  a year. 
Norway  and  Sweden  are  fighting  for  National 


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Prohibition.  In  our  own  country  you  remember 
bow  our  Secretary  of  the  Navy  last  year  shoved 
every  beer  mug,  and  wine  bottle,  and  whisky 
flask  off  of  every  Government  ship  with  one 
stroke  of  bis  pen,  cleaning  up  our  navy  in  ten 
minutes.  There  was  quite  a bowl  over  here  on 
the  coast  for  a few  weeks,  but  so  far  as  I am  able 
to  bear  any  more,  the  genial  bowl  of  Colonel 
George  Harvey,  of  the  North  American  Review, 
is  the  only  bowl  that  has  not  been  silenced. 

Now,  have  you  stopt  to  ask  yourself  the 
question.  How  do  we  come  to  have  this  universal 
harmony  in  the  midst  of  world-wide  strife?  With 
the  nations  at  each  other’s  throats,  bow  does  it 
come  that  German  and  English  and  French  and 
Russian  and  American  are  all  singing  one  tune 
on  the  temperance  question?  MTiile  disagreeing 
about  everything  else,  they  are  all  agreed  in  this 
determination  to  choke  the  liquor  saloon  to 
death.  The  answer  is  very  evident.  That  one 
word  efficiency,  with  which  we  started,  is  the  key. 
They  must  have  the  best  soldiers  they  can  get. 
They  must  have  the  best  sailors  they  can  find. 
They  must  have  men  with  full  tide  of  manly 
force,  or  the  nation  must  die.  And  they  all  agree 
that  the  liquor  saloon  is  the  greatest  master  of 
manly  force  the  world  ever  saw.  And  this  same 
struggle  for  efficiency  is  at  work  on  every  rail- 
road, in  every  steel  mill,  in  every  crockery  plant, 
in  every  great  mine  and  factory  and  mill  and 


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shop  in  America,  pushing  us  in  this  country  to 
National  Prohibition. 

There  is  another  tremendous  force  which  is 
cumulative  and  getting  more  powerful  every  day, 
which  in  America  is  hurrying  us  toward  Prohibi- 
tion. *And  that  is  that  we  have  Prohibition  in  so 
many  places,  and  we  have  had  it  so  long  in  some 
places,  that  they  can’t  lie  about  it  any  more  and 
get  away  with  it.  While  we  only  had  scattered 
dry  towns,  and  all  around  were  wet,  when  we 
only  had  a State  here  and  there,  a thousand  miles 
apart,  that  was  Prohibition,  and  the  ill-gotten 
millions  of  the  brewers  and  distillers  could  be 
brought  in  to  break  down  the  enforcement  of  law, 
it  was  comparatively  easy  to  make  the  great  busi- 
ness world  doubt  whether  Prohibition  was  not  a 
disturbing  factor  in  finance,  and  whether  it  was 
possible  to  build  up  a great  rich  State  where 
wealth  could  be  rapidly  acquired  and  stably  held 
under  Prohibition.  But  you  can’t  make  that  lie 
stick  any  more.  We  have  had  time  now  to  build 
up  great  commonwealths,  some  of  the  richest  in 
the  world,  where  wealth  is  more  equally  dis- 
tributed than  in  any  State  on  earth  since  the 
birth  of  Jesus  Christ,  under  Prohibition,  and  in- 
telligent business  men  will  not  swallow  the  old 
lies  about  Prohibition  destroying  the  business 
life  of  the  community.  With  the  contrast  staring 
them  in  the  face  of  every  fourth  farmer  in  Kan- 
sas sporting  an  automobile  while  an  adjoining 


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State  only  has  one  automobile  to  every  hundred 
farmers,  the  old  lie  has  ceased  to  work. 

My  friends,  this  is  a great  age  in  which  to  live, 
if  you  long  for  the  kingdom  of  sobriety  and 
righteousness  to  come  on  the  earth.  There  never 
was  a day  when  the  outlook  for  a sober  nation 
was  so  bright,  or  when  the  change  to  better 
things  was  coming  so  rapidly  as  now.  Only 
twenty  years  ago,  when  I was  pastor  in  Boston 
and  used  to  go  out  through  New  England  making 
Prohibition  speeches,  I used  sometimes,  when  I 
was  especially  daring  and  optimistic,  to  tell  this 
little  personal  story:  How  my  father’s  people 
settled  in  Virginia  long  before  the  Revolution 
and  remained  there  until  my  grandfather  moved 
over  into  Tennessee,  where  my  father  was  born. 
While  he  was  still  a little  boy,  they  went 
on  into  Arkansas  and  remained  there  untU  he 
was  a man  grown.  Then,  in  1851,  the  group  went 
across  the  plains  to  Oregon  with  ox-teams.  They 
were  six  months  on  the  road  from  St.  Louis  to 
Portland.  And  over  there  in  those  Oregon  woods, 
where  I was  born  and  brought  up,  my  father, 
who  was  much  of  a philosopher  in  his  day,  used 
to  have  one  particular  gospel  which  he  liked  to 
rub  into  everybody,  and  that  was  that,  if  a thing 
was  good  enough  to  come  true,  it  could  come  true 
quicker  in  America  than  anywhere  on  earth.  He 
used  to  illustrate  that  to  me  in  this  way.  He 
would  say:  “Now,  my  boy,  I was  grown  almost 


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to  be  a man  before  I ever  beard  tbe  prophecy 
down  where  I grew  up  that  there  would  ever  be 
universal  freedom  for  the  slaves  in  this  country, 
and  yet  there  was  not  a gray  hair  in  my  head 
when  there  was  not  a slave  under  the  flag.’’ 

Well,  only  twenty  years  ago,  I used  to  tell  that 
story  when  I was  particularly  daring,  and  add  to 
it  that  I was  grown  almost  to  be  a man  before 
I ever  heard  the  two  words,  “National”  and 
“Prohibition,”  coupled  together,  but  that  I hoped 
to  live  and  not  be  very  gray-headed  when  there 
was  not  a legalized  liquor  saloon  under  the 
American  flag.  Well,  you  have  no  idea  how 
shocked  good  people  were  only  twenty  years  ago 
at  what  they  thought  was  a sort  of  malicious 
optimism  in  those  words.  Twenty  years  ago  this 
year  in  Tremont  Temple  in  Boston,  one  Sunday 
afternoon  before  a mass  temperance  meeting  of 
over  three  thousand  people,  I was  one  of  three 
or  four  speakers  who  made  addresses,  and  I 
closed  my  speech  with  that  utterance.  A very 
distinguished  minister  of  that  day  was  intro- 
duced to  follow  me.  Dear  fellow,  he  is  dead  and 
in  heaven  now,  and  knows  better.  But  he  was 
greatly  provoked  with  me  for  having  made  what 
he  thought  was  a wildly  extravagant  and  impos- 
sible utterance.  He  began  his  speech  by  saying: 
“I  like  to  see  a man  hopeful,  I like  to  see  a man 
optimistic,  but  I like  to  see  some  wisdom  at- 
tached to  it.  If  Banks  lives  to  be  old  enough  to 


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see  the  day  when  there  will  be  no  licensed  liquor 
saloons  under  the  American  flag,  he  will  be  old 
enough  to  give  Methuselah  points.” 

Now,  the  dear  fellow  was  a good  temperance 
man,  but  he  was  just  as  hopeless  about  the  liquor 
problem  as  that.  And  do  you  know  there  were 
millions  of  good  people  in  this  country  only 
twenty  years  ago  who  were  as  hopeless  about  the 
saloon  problem  as  that?  I can  remember  how  we 
used  to  pray  about  it  in  the  prayer-meetings  in 
those  days,  and  how  we  used  to  talk  about  it  in 
the  revival  meetings,  as  tho  the  only  thing 
that  preaching  and  good  people  could  do  about 
it  was  to  patch  up  a poor  drunkard  here,  and 
soak  out  a poor  old  sot  over  there,  and  try  to 
persuade  him  to  die  while  he  was  sober,»  so  we 
could  gel  him  into  heaven.  Oh,  the  nightmare  of 
it!  The  saloons  were  damning  a hundred  boys 
behind  our  backs  to  be  just  like  him  while  we 
were  soaking  him  out.  They  thought  that  was  all 
we  could  do  about  it. 

Thank  God!  we  lived  through  that.  There  is 
not  an  intelligent  man  or  woman  in  America  talk- 
ing that  kind  of  stuff  to-day.  You  can  not  find 
an  intelligent  editor  of  a liquor  newspaper  any- 
where who  believes  that  the  liquor  saloon  has 
more  than  ten  years  of  life  left  in  it.  A big 
brewer  over  in  one  of  the  Western  States  man- 
aged to  find  a sucker  a few  weeks  ago  and  traded 
off  his  brewery  stock  and  got  out  of  business.*  A 


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bright  newspaper  man  went  to  interview  him  to 
find  out  why  he  was  getting  out  of  business  so 
early  in  life,  being  comparatively  a young  man, 
and  he  very  solicitously  asked  him  if  his  health 
were  failing.  “Oh,  no,”  said  the  ex-brewer  as  he 
grinned,  “it  is  nothing  of  that  kind;  but  you  see 
I am  not  exactly  a fool,  and  I know  enough  to 
get  out  of  the  house  before  the  roof  falls  in.” 
That  is  the  way  they  are  all  thinking  about  it 
these  days.  “We  who  are  about  to  die  salute 
you,”  is  the  attitude  of  the  saloon  to-day,  from 
one  ocean  to  the  other.  My  friends,  some  of  you 
have  been  long  in  the  battle.  Through  the  long 
years  of  the  fight,  often  with  many  forebodings, 
and  deep  discouragement,  we  have  been  crying 
out,  “Watchman,  what  of  the  night?”  But  at 
last,  with  great  courage  and  assurance,  we  are 
able  to  cry  back,  “The  day  breaketh,  the  dawn  is 
at  hand.” 


THE  ROMANCE  OF  THE  ANTI-SALOON 
LEAGUE  MOVEMENT* 

The  dictionaries  give  several  great  qualities  to 
the  romantic.  The  first  of  these  is  that  it  ap- 
peals to  the  imagination.  Another  element  of 
the  romantic  is  the  quality  of  heroism.  Still  an- 
other is  the  marvelous.  The  Anti-Saloon  League 

* From  an  address  by  Dr.  Louis  Albert  Banks. 


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movement  has  all  these  characteristics  which 
make  for  noble  romance.  It  was  born  in  the 
dreams  of  great  souls. 

The  Anti-Saloon  League,  as  we  know  it,  has 
but  just  come  to  its  majority,  but  it  is  a giant 
of  worthy  and  heroic  parents.  Or,  to  change  the 
figure,  it  is  a plant  not  out  of  dry  ground,  but 
out  of  soil  heroic  and  romantic,  plowed  and  har- 
rowed by  a hand  of  men  and  women  as  heroic 
and  devoted  as  ever  battled  for  righteousness 
since  the  world  began. 

There  is  no  page  of  romance  more  splendid 
than  the  woman’s  side  of  this  great  reform.  The 
world  will  not  soon  forget  that  first  march  of  the 
woman’s  crusade  at  Hillsboro,  Ohio,  two  days 
before  Christmas,  forty-three  years  ago,  when  a 
band  of  timid  but  determined  Christian  women 
rose  from  their  knees  and  arranging  themselves 
two  and  two,  the  shortest  women  in  front,  leaving 
the  tall  ones  to  bring  up  the  rear,  went  forth  into 
the  street,  to  drug  stores  and  saloons  and  hotels ; 
they  pleaded  and  sung  and  prayed,  until  saloon 
after  saloon  was  closed  at  their  entreaties.  It 
was  a divine  contagion  that  spread  throughout 
the  land.  In  hundreds  of  towns  and  villages, 
from  one  ocean  to  the  other,  Christian  women 
followed  their  example.  Sometimes  they  were 
abused  and  mobbed;  in  some  places  they  were 
arrested  and  thrown  into  jail;  but  it  was  a divine 
work,  and  God  was  in  it,  and  great  good  was  ac- 


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complished.  That  Woman’s  Crusade  was  the  soil 
out  of  which  grew  the  Woman’s  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union,  and  out  of  that  sprang  that  mar- 
yelous  woman,  Frances  Willard. 

At  every  step  of  this  great  reform  woman’s  de- 
votion has  added  romantic  spirit  to  the  Anti- 
Saloon  movement.  When  the  Prohibition  amend- 
ment was  in  the  balance  in  the  Kansas  House  of 
Eepresentatives,  the  vote  was  taken  at  midnight. 
The  roll  of  ayes  and  nays  was  called,  while  every 
ear  in  the  vast  assembly  that  filled  the  galleries 
and  corridor  was  strained  to  catch  each  man’s 
response,  as  he  answered  to  his  name.  Busy  pen- 
cils kept  the  tally,  and  when  the  voting  ceased,  a 
sigh  from  many  a temperance  man’s  heart  ac- 
companied the  words:  “We’ve  lost  our  cause  by 
just  one  vote.”  But  look!  A woman,  gentle, 
modest,  sweet,  advances  from  the  crowd.  What! 
Is  she  going  down  that  aisle,  where  never  woman 
trod  before,  and  in  among  that  group  of  party 
leaders?  * Yea,  verily;  and  every  eye  follows  her 
with  intense  interest,  and  the  throng  is  strangely 
still  as  she  goes  straight  to  her  husband,  takes 
his  big  hand  in  her  little  one,  lifts  her  dark  eyes 
to  his  face,  and  speaks  these  thrilling  words: 
“My  darling,  for  my  sake,  and  for  the  sake  of 
our  sweet  home,  for  Kansas’  sake,  and  God’s,  I 
beseech  you,  change  your  vote.”  When  lo,  upon 
the  silence  breaks  a man’s  deep  voice:  “Mr 
Speaker,  before  the  clerk  reads  the  result,  I wish 


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to  change  my  vote  from  No  to  Aye.”  How  loud 
rang  out  the  cheers  of  men.  How  fell  the  rain  of 
women’s  tears.  For  love  had  conquered,  as  it 
always  will  at  last;  and  the  voices  of  the  people 
heard  in  Kansas  said:  ‘‘Give  us  Prohibition  for 
home  and  children’s  sake.”  So  for  a whole  gen- 
eration Kansas  has  led  the  van,  and  given  good 
cheer  to  every  fight,  and  help  to  every  victory, 
and  one  little  woman  saved  the  day. 
si  We  must  never  forget  either,  when  we  are  re- 
calling the  romantic  story  of  this  great  move- 
ment, the  heroism  and  fidelity,  the  dauntless 
courage  and  the  unselfish  devotion  of  the  pio- 
neers of  the  Prohibition  party.  However  we  may 
differ  in  regard  to  the  wisdom  of  their  political 
methods,  every  true  man  must  take  off  his  hat 
to  the  marvelous,  heroic  service  of  men  like  John 
P.  St.  John,  Samuel  Dickie,  Clinton  B.  Fisk, 
Isaac  K.  Funk,  Charles  Meade,  Adna  B.  Leonard, 
John  B.  Finch,  Sam  Jones,  and  a multitude  of 
others  of  whom  the  world  was  not  worthy,  who 
have,  many  of  them,  gone  over  to  the  great  ma- 
jority, but  who  in  their  darker  day  and  time  kept 
the  fire  alive  and  the  torch  brightly  burning,  and 
in  conjunction  with  their  sisters  of  the  Woman’s 
Christian  Temperance  Union  prepared  the  soil 
out  of  which  has  grown  this  gigantic  combina- 
tion of  power  for  righteousness  which  we  know 
to-day  as  the  Anti-Saloon  League  of  America.  It 
is  not  too  high  honor  for  us  to  pay  them  to  say 


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that  they  worked  without  us,  but  we  never  could 
have  been  what  we  are  without  them. 

And  the  Anti-Saloon  League  of  America — it, 
too,  has  its  romantic  story.  At  about  the  same 
time,  in  different  parts  of  the  country.  Alpha  G. 
Kynett  and  Howard  H.  Russell  conceived  the 
same  great  thought  of  an  inter-partizan,  inter- 
denominational movement  that  should  gather  and 
concentrate  the  cooperative  and  combined  force 
of  American  Christianity  into  the  great  war 
against  the  saloon.  Kynett  was  soon  called  to 
his  reward,  a brave,  cheerful-hearted,  great  soul ; 
and  to  Howard  H.  Russell  God  gave  the  honor — 
and  at  first  he  had  a lonely  struggle — to  organize 
and  set  to  work  the  new-born  league  against  the 
saloon.  It  is  not  for  me  to  undertake  to  tell 
what  the  whole  world  knows  of  the  story  of  the 
last  twenty-two  years,  but  having  seen  it  all  with 
the  perspective  of  the  past,  I can  not  help  saying 
that  no  movement  in  modern  times  has  had  more 
romantic  and  heroic  and  marvelous  characteris- 
tics than  this.  To  some  of  these  men  the  world 
owes  a great  debt.  Of  the  patient,  persistent, 
unselfish  and  sacrificing  devotion  of  Howard  H. 
Russell  we  can  not  say  too  much.  Of  the  wise, 
balanced,  burden-bearing,  statesmanlike  service 
of  Purley  A,  Baker  it  is  hard  to  say  enough.  As 
we  needed  them,  God  has  raised  up  men  for  our 
day  and  emergency.  Our  noble  Bishop  Wilson, 
our  witty  and  eloquent  Sam  Small,  that  young 


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genius  with  the  shoulders  of  a giant,  strong  to 
carry  the  Atlas-like  burden  of  our  finances, 
Ernest  Cherrington,  the  heroic  John  G.  Woolley, 
brought  over  like  myself  from  the  Prohibition 
party,  the  gallant  Hobson,  the  eloquent  Patter- 
son, a Saul  we  captured  from  the  enemy  and 
transformed  into  our  St.  Paul,  Bane  of  the  keen 
blade,  the  versatile  Kelser,  the  brilliant  Wheeler 
and  the  indomitable  Dinwiddle,  and  all  that  army 
of  splendid  state  superintendents  from  Oregon 
to  New  York,  and  Maine  to  Texas,  and  Florida 
to  Washington,  men  who  have  won  their  spurs  as 
masters  of  assembly  in  other  fields,  and  now  lay 
their  all  upon  the  altar  -of  this  greatest  battle  for 
modern  civilization.  And  time  would  fail  me  to 
tell  of  Glenn  and  Smith,  Landrith  and  Landis, 
Morrow  and  Swadener  and  Stearns  and  Stelzle, 
and  many  others-  as  worthy,  who  through  their 
faith  and  heroism  are  wiping  out  saloons,  mak- 
ing dry  the  wet  places,  and  stopping  the  mouths 
of  blind  tigers. 

And  behind  all  these  who  stand  in  the  public 
eye,  and  on  whom  is  laid  the  responsibility  of 
leadership,  we  do  not  for  a moment  forget  that 
great  army  of  noble  pastors  in  all  the  churches 
who  in  season  and  out  of  season  stand  loyally  by 
this  great  cause;  and  the  still  greater  army  of 
splendid  business  and  professional  men  who 
give  not  only  their  services  and  their  influence, 
but  who  pour  out  their  wealth  to  print  Prohibi- 


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tion  literature  and  sustain  the  movement,  with- 
out which  everything  else  would  fall  to  the 
ground.  If  we  could  know  the  story  of  all  the 
subscriptions  that  are  made  every  year  by  faith- 
ful and  heroic  laymen  to  carry  this  great  cause 
to  triumph,  it  would  be  full  of  romance  and  in- 
spiration. 

If  there  he  any  that  ask  in  these  days,  “Why 
the  necessity  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League  of  Amer- 
ica in  this  critical  hour  of  this  great  reform?” 
this  is  my  answer  to  them.  This  is  the  age  of 
combination.  The  personal  age  has  disappeared 
forever.  There  was  an  age  that  the  Old  Testa- 
ment tells  us  about  when,  if  the  armies  of  good 
and  evil  were  drawn  up  against  each  other  on 
the  plains,  and  the  result  hung  in  the  balance,  a 
David  could  come  down  from  his  father’s  sheep 
ranch  in  the  hills  and  cut  off  the  head  of  Goliath, 
and  the  whole  army  of  the  Philistines  would 
run.  That  day  has  gone  forever.  The  vicious 
things  in  our  American  life  to-day  fight  under 
the  banner  of  the  liquor  traffic  with  a vast  back- 
ing of  ill-gained  wealth.**  The  breweries,  the  dis- 
tilleries, the  liquor  saloons,  the  gambling  hells, 
the  brothels,  the  white  slave  gangs,  every  loath- 
some creature  of  all  the  horrid  brood  that  de- 
spoils our  American  life  to-day  fight  together  as 
pals  under  the  leagued  banner  of  the  liquor  traf- 
fic, with  a thousand  millions  of  money.  If  you 
arrest  a white  slaver  in  Alaska  or  San  Fran- 


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cisco,  or  lay  your  hand  on  a brothel  in  Montana, 
or  a gambling  hell  in  Nevada,  the  whole  piratical 
gang,  with  their  hundreds  of  millions  of  wealth, 
will  fight  to  save-  the  scoundrels  to  the  ends  of 
the  earth. 

Now  against  a combination  like  that,  unscru- 
pulous as  that  is,  and  financed  as  that  is,  no  one 
church  can  count  for  anything  alone.  Hence  the 
imperative  necessity  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League 
of  America.  That  for  twenty-two  years  has  been 
growing  into  power  until  it  has  reached  out  into 
all  political  parties,  and  yet  become  partizan  in 
no  party;  has  reached  out  into  all  churches,  and 
yet  become  denominational  in  no  church ; has 
gathered  into  its  heart  and  muscle  the  vitality, 
the  conscience,  the  intelligence,  the  patriotism  of 
the  whole  American  people  to  such  an  extent  that 
it  has  proved  its  power  to  take  the  leadership 
and  bear  the  brunt  of  smiting  the  liquor  saloon 
to  death  in  ten  States  in  a single  year.  This  is 
the  Anti-Saloon  League  of  America,  the  might- 
iest burden-bearing  league  for  the  public  good 
that  the  world  has  ever  seen. 

Aoid  now  we  are  in  the  midst  of  the  greatest 
epoch  we  have  known.  We  were  never  so  opti- 
mistic. The  sky  was  never  so  full  of  cheer.  But 
on  the  other  hand,  the  battle  was  never  so  fierce, 
the  burden  never  so  heavy,  and  the  demand  for 
vision  and  courage  and  resourceful  energy  was 
never  so  great  as  to-day.  Notwithstanding  our 


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tremendous  victories  in  the  last  two  years,  we 
can  not  hold  the  ground  we  have  won — and  go  on 
to  permanent  and  complete  triumph  in  National 
Prohibition — without  still  more  strenuous  endeav- 
or. We  must  dedicate  ourselves  anew  with  all 
the  devotion  of  our  souls  to  the  great  heroic  con- 
test of  the  yea,r  that  lies  before  us.  We  should 
hear  the  nation  calling  to  us  for  the  very  highest 
and  noblest  efforts  of  which  we  are  capable. 

THE  RELATION  BETWEEN  PROHIBITION 
AND  HUMAN  CONSERVATION  * 

For  several  generations  past  the  people  of  this 
nation  and  their  public  servants  have  made  the 
dollar  mark  their  coat-of-arms,»  they  have  fol- 
lowed gold,  they  have  worshiped  gold,  they  have 
served  gold,  and  neglected  human  interests,  and 
until  recently  most  of  our  legislation  has  been  in 
the  interest  of  coin  and  commerce.  Cattle,  sheep, 
hogs  and  horses,  in  the  public  marts  of  the  na- 
tion, have  been  worth  more  than  men.  Stocks, 
bonds,  houses,  lands,  crops  and  currency  have 
had  a higher  value  than  boys  and  girls  in  the 
popular  estimation.  The  Government  has  been 
willing  to  furnish  an  expert  to  cure  a hog  of  the 
cholera,  a horse  of  the  glanders,  or  a cow  of 
tuberculosis,  while  permitting  hundreds  of  hu- 
man beings  to  die  daily  of  neglect^  But  the  time 

* From  an  address  by  Dr.  A.  C.  Bane,  of  Westerville,  Ohio. 


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is  rapidly  approaching  when  we  will  think  more 
of  men  and  women  than  we  do  now  of  hogs; 
when  we  will  cherish  man  as  of  superior  value  to 
mere  things. 

If  you  would  develop  and  preserve  a race  that 
is  virile  in  mind  and  body,  you  must  destroy  the 
liquor  traffic,  for  alcoholic  liquor  is  degenerating 
the  race.»If  you  would  assure  a normal  birth  to 
childhood,  you  must  destroy  the  liquor  traffic,  for  i 
the  drinking  parents  are  producing  defective\J 
children.  If  you  would  prevent  child  labor,  you 
must  destroy  the  liquor  traffic,  the  chief  cause  of 
child  labor.  If  you  would  make  it  easier  for  the 
youth  to  do  right,  and  more  difficult  for  the  youth 
to  do  wrong,  you  must  destroy  the  liquor  traffic, 
their  greatest  tempter  from  the  path  of  rectitude. 
If  you  would  reduce  the  death-rate  and  lengthen 
human  life,  you  must  destroy  the  liquor  traffic, 
which  increases  our  death-rate  by  30  per 
cent.  If  you  would  make  the  housing  of  the  poor 
sanitary  and  attractive,  and  thus  preserve  their 
health  and  lives,  you  must  destroy  the  liquor 
traffic,  which  is  the  chief  contributory  cause  of 
bad  housing.  If  you  would  solve  the  problem  of 
the  unemployed,  you  must  destroy  the  liquor 
traffic,  which  throws  and  keeps  more  men  out  of 
employment  than  does  any  other  cause.  If  you 
would  reduce  industrial  accidents  to  the  minimum 
and  enforce  the  modern  slogan  “Safety  First,” 


AMMUNITION  FOR  FINAL  DRIVE  ON  BOOZE 


you  must  destroy  the  liquor  traffi^ which  is  the 
chief  cause  of  industrial  accidents.  If  you  would 
meet  the  present-day  demand  for  efficiency  of 
service,  you  must  destroy  the  liquor  traffic,  which 
reduces  both  mental  and  physical  efficiency.  If 
you  would  reduce  poverty  to  the  minimum,  you 
must  destroy  the  liquor  traffic,  which  produces 
most  of  the  paupers.  If  you  would  reduce  crime 
to  the  minimum,  you  must  destroy  the  liquor 
traffic,  the  chief  cause  of  crime.  If  you  would 
reduce  gambling  to  the  minimum,  you  must  de- 
stroy the  liquor  traffic,  which  chiefly  encourages 
this  vice.  If  you  would  reduce  the  number  of  in- 
sane and  mental  imbeciles,  you  must  destroy  the 
liquor  traffic,  their  chief  producer.  If  you  would 
reduce  the  number  of  divorces  and  maintain 
happy  hom^,  you  must  destroy  the  liquor  traffic, 
the  greatest  wrecker  of  homes.  If  you  would 
stamp  out  the  social  evil  and  white  slavery,  you 
must  destroy  the  liquor  traffic,  which  is  their 
chief  contributing  cause.  If  you  would  add  to 
personal  comforts  and  wealth,  you  must  destroy 
the  liquor  traffic,  which  is  the  greatest  waster  of 
incomes.  If  you  want  commercial  prosperity, 
you  must  destroy  the  liquor  traffic,  which  is  al- 
ways a wealth  consumer  and  never  a wealth  pro- 
ducer. If  you  would  reduce  the  expense  of  gov- 
ernment, you  must  destroy  the  liquor  traffic, 
which  produces  the  delinquents,  defectives  and 
dependents  that  require  public  support  and  con- 


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trol  at  great  annual  cost  to  the  taxpayers.  If 
you  would  have  clean  politics  and  good  govern- 
ment you  must  destroy  the  liquor  traffic,  which  is 
the  greatest  corrupter  of  politicians  and  govern- 
ment. If  you  would  equip  and  maintain  a strong 
army  and  navy  of  defense,  you  must  destroy  the 
liquor  traffic,  which,  according  to  the  statement 
of  the  surgeons  of  our  army,  makes  76  per 
cent,  of  the  applicants  for  enlistment  physi- 
cally or  mentally  unfit  to  serve.  If  you  want  a 
people  of  righteous  and  clean  personal  morals, 
qualified  for  the  best  service  to  God  and  human- 
ity, you  must  destroy  the  liquor  traffic,  which  is 
the  greatest  corrupter  of  morals.  There  is  but 
one  thing  in  America  worse  than  the  liquor  traf- 
fic, and  that  is  the  public  sentiment  that  tolerates 
it.  The  destruction  of  the  liquor  traffic  is  there- 
fore the  paramount  duty  of  this  generation,  if  we 
would  conserve  humanity. 


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BABIES  AND  THEIR  VESTED  RIGHTS  * 

Babies  have  several  ve^ed  rights. 

1.  They  have  the  right  io  be  born  with  a sound 
body  and  a sound  braiiVrather  than  defective  in 
vitality  or  mentality,  because  of  the  alcoholism- 
of  their  parents. 

2.  They  have  the  right  to  be  born  of  parents 
who  by  sobriety  and  industry  will  be  able  to  rear 
them  outside  of  the  shops,  mills  and  factories 
until  they  are  fully  developed,  both  physically 
and  mentally,  to  enter  into  the  struggle  and  com- 
petition of  life. 

3.  They  have  the  right  to  be  born  in  an  en- 
vironment that  will  not  deliver  them  to  the  re- 
form institutions  and  the  penitentiaries  in  their 
young  manhood  and  young  womanhood. 

4.  They  have  the  right  to  get  their  early  polit- 
ical purposes  and  principles  free  from  an  envi- 
ronment of  hypocrisy  and  duplicity  practised  and 
promoted  in  and  about  the  saloons. 

5.  They  have  the  right  to  be  bom  of  fathers 
who  are  not  denied  admission  to  the  lodges  of 
the  Masons,  the  Odd  Fellows,  the  Knights  of  Py- 
thias and  other  fraternities. 

6.  They  have  the  right  to  be  born  of  fathers 
who  will  give  them  the  counsel  and  wisdom  of  a 
ripe  old  age,  rather  than  of  fathers  who  enter 

* From  an  address  by  the  Hon.  John  J.  Lentz,  of  Columbus,  Ohio. 

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premature  graves  because  of  the  many  diseases 
due  to  alcoholism. 

7.  They  have  a right  to  be  born  of  fathers  who 
spend  no  part  of  their  lives  in  prisons  and  peni- 
tentiaries. 

We  have  had  all  kinds  of  philosophical  discus- 
sions and  all  kinds  of  bloody  revolutions  to  se- 
cure the  Rights  of  Man,  but  never  yet  a scientific 
consideration  of  the  rights  of  the  new-born  babe. 
Up  to  this  time  the  vested  rights  of  babies  is  an 
undiscovered  and  unexplored  continent.  Up  to 
this  time  the  vested  rights  of  babies  has  found  no 
place  in  the  chapter  headings  of  the  law  books; 
has  found  no  place  in  the  millions  of  syllabi  of 
the  hundreds  of  thousands  of  decisions  reported 
by  the  Supreme  Courts  of  the  world. 

There  is  overmuch  talk  in  the  arguments  of  the 
lawyers  and  legislators  and  the  decisions  of  the 
judges  about  the  vested  rights  of  railways  in  our 
streets  and  highways ; also  about  the  vested 
rights  to  farms  and  corner  lots  and  brick  and 
mortar;  but  never  a syllable  about  the  vested 
right  of  a baby  to  be  born  sober  and  free  from 
the  degeneracy  of  alcoholism,  such  as  idiocy, 
epilepsy,  St.  Vitus  dance  and  other  degrees  of 
defective  mentality;  and  free  from  such  physical 
weaknesses  as  manifest  themselves  in  an  in- 
creased death-rate  in  early  childhood  and  im- 
paired health,  strength  and  vitality  throughout 
life  should  the  child  live  beyond  infancy. 


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ammunition  for  final  drive  on  booze 


Every  scientific  investigation  furnishes  facts 
and  figures  demonstrating  that  children  bom  of 
drinkers  of  alcoholic  beverages  show  a mucli 
larger  percentage  of  mental  diseases  and  physi- 
cal defects  than  do  the  children  hom  of  total  ab- 
stainers. 


Dr.  Josef  Schweighover,  an  Austrian  investi- 
gator, published  in  1912  the  conclusions  of  his 
researches  along  the  lines  of  alcoholic  degeneracy 
among  the  people  of  the  Duchy  of  Salzburg  in 
these  words:  “The  study  shows  that  the  chil- 
dren of  drinkers  develop  mental  diseases  much 
oftener  than  the  children  of  parents  who  are 
themselves  mentally  diseased,  but  not  alcoholic. 
An  existing  tendency  to  mental  weakness  be- 
comes fixt  under  the  effects  of  alcohol,  while 
without  it  there  may  be  recovery.  Seventy-five 
per  cent,  of  the  insane  patients  in  Salzburg  had 
notorious  drinkers  for  parents.” 

Prof.  Rudolph  Demme,  of  the  Jenner  Hospital 
for  Children  in  Berne,  carefully  compared  the 
sixty-one  descendants  of  ten  totally  abstaining 
families  and  found  that  five  died  in  infancy  and 
six  were  mentally  defective,  and  fifty,  or  82 
per  cent,  of  them,  were  normalV  With  these 
he  compared  the  fifty-seven  children  born  of  ten 
drinking  families,  and  found  that  twenty-five  of 
them  died  in  infancy  and  twenty-two  were  men- 


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tally  defective,  leaving  only  ten,  or  17%  per 
cent.,  who  were  normal. 

Dr,  W.  C.  Sullivan,  medical  officer  in  his  ma- 
jesty’s prison  service.  Great  Britain,  mad'e  a 
study  as  to  the  children  of  one  hundred  and 
twenty  drunken  mothers,  and  described  the  con- 
clusions in  these  words:  “Of  six  hundred  chil- 
dren born  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  drunken 
mothers,  three  hundred  and  thirty-five  (55.8  per 
cent.)  died  in  infancy,  or  were  still-bom,  several 
of  the  survivors  were  mentally  defective,  and  4.1 
per  cent,  were  epileptic.  Many  of  these  women 
had  female  relatives,  sisters  or  daughters  of 
sober  habits  and  married  to  sober  husbands, 
whose  children’s  deaths  in  infancy  were  but  one 
hundred  and  forty- three  (23.9  per  cent,  as 
against  55.2  per  cent.),  and  it  was  also  observed 
that  in  the  drunken  families  there  was  a progres- 
sive rise  in  the  death-rate  from  the  earlier  to  the 
later  born  children.  Dr.  Sullivan  also  found  in 
a study  of  four  hundred  and  forty-four  children 
that  of  the  first  born  eighty  children  from  one 
hundred  and  twenty  alcoholic  mothers,  33.7  per 
cent.  died.  Of  the  second  bom  eighty  children, 
50  per  cent.  died.  Of  the  third  born  eighty  chil- 
dren, 52.6  per  cent.  died.  Of  the  fourth  and  fifth 
born  one  hundred  and  eleven  children,  65.7  per 
cent,  died,  and  of  the  sixth  to  tenth  born  ninety- 
three  children,  72  per  cent,  died.” 

Professor  Bunge,  of  Basil  University,  studied 


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the  conditions  of  children  of  fathers  of  alcoholic 
habits  and  found  that  the  defectives,  including 
idiocy,  epilepsy,  feeble-mindedness,  St.  Vitus 
dance  and  others,  were  as  follows:  Out  of  two 
hundred  and  nineteen  children  of  occasional 
drinkers  2.3  per  cent,  were  defective.  Out  of  one 
hundred  and  thirty  children  of  moderate  regular 
drinkers  4.6  per  cent,  were  defective;  out  of 
sixty-seven  children  of  regular  heavy  drinkers  9 
per  cent,  were  defective,  and  out  of  fifty-three 
children  of  drunkards  19  per  cent,  were  defec- 
tive. 

Mr.  Salzlechner,  a teacher  of  wide  and  varied 
experience,  reported  to  the  Hungarian  Oovern- 
ment  his  conclusions  in  these  words:  “The  chil- 
dren in  those  places  where  there  are  more  oppor- 
tunities for  drinking  are  mentally  less  gifted. 
Those  where  alcohol  is  less  used  are  more  tal- 
ented and  of  better  quality  morally.  It  is  a fre- 
quent complaint  that  the  youth  of  wine  regions 
are  raw  and  coarse.” 

In  examining  into  the  history  of  two  thousand, 
five  hundred  and  fifty-four  idiotic,  epileptic,  hys- 
terical or  weak-minded  children  in  the  institu- 
tion at  Bicetre,  France,  Bourneville  found  that 
\f  over  41  per  cent,  had  alcoholic  parents. 

Bezzola  and  Hartman  report  in  substance  the 
same  result  of  their  examination  of  the  idiots 
and  criminals  in  Switzerland,  saying:  “A  large 
proportion  of  the  idiots  and  criminals  in  Switzer- 


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land  were  conceived  during  the  season  of  the 
year  when  the  custom  of  the  country  leads  to  a 
disproportionate  consumption  of  alcohol.” 

In  another  study  made  by  Dr.  Sullivan,  of 
Great  Britain,  he  reported  that  an  investigation 
of  the  children  of  twenty-one  drinking  mothers 
showed  that  55  per  cent,  died  under  two  years  of 
age;  while  of  the  children  of  twenty-eight  sober 
mothers  only  23  per  cent,  died  under  two  years 
of  age. 

Another  vested  right  of  the  baby  is  to  have  its 
father  and  mother  live  to  a mature  and  ripe  old, 
age,  so  that  the  child  grown  into  manhood  or 
womanhood  may  have  the  counsel  and  instruction 
that  comes  with  the  ripe  and  philosophic  years 
of  its  parents.  Alcohol  is  an  insidious  poison, 
and  it  is  estimated  that  in  the  American  Eepublic 
it  is  annually  sending  sixty-six  thousand  of  our 
people  to  premature  graves. 

Why  multiply  and  elaborate  with  further  sta- 
tistics and  data?  Haven’t  I made  it  plain  that  a 
new  Fourth  of  July  is  due,  and  a new  Declara- 
tion of  Independence  is  necessary?  Isn’t  it  a 
legitimate  question  to  ask  whether  babies  have 
any  vested  rights?  How  can  we  equalize  the 
baby  of  the  poor  man  with  the  baby  of  the  rich 
man?  How  can  we  equalize  the  baby  of  the  mod- 
erate drinker  and  the  drunkard  with  the  baby  of 
the  total  abstainer?  How  can  the  baby  have 
equal  opportunities  for  life,  liberty  and  pursuit 


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of  happiness,  if  it  be  born  of  an  ignorant  mother 
and  an  ignorant  father,  or  of  a drinking  mother 
or  a drinking  father?  Surely  the  answer  must 
he  plain,  that  it  is  as  much  the  duty  of  the  gov- 
ernment to  protect  the  new-born  babe  from  pov- 
erty and  ignorance  and  child-labor,  and  from  al- 
coholism of  its  parents,  as  it  is  to  protect  our 
cities  and  homes  with  better  plumbing  and  other 
sanitary  conditions. 

We  quarantine  our  ports  of  entry  against 
cholera,  yellow  fever,  the  bubonic  plague,  small- 
pox and  the  like.  Isn’t  it  more  important  to 
protect  our  babies  against  alcoholism  and  the 
microbes  of  ignorance,  superstition  and  preju- 
dice, and  thus  prevent  those  who  are  nearest  the 
level  of  the  chimpanzee  and  the  baboon  from  es- 
tablishing the  intellectual,  social  and  political  in- 
heritance and  environment  of  the  baby?  Isn’t 
it  about  time  that  those  of  us  interested  in  and 
aware  of  the  power  of  government,  the  oppor- 
tunity and  responsibility  of  the  State,  should 
awaken  to  a sense  of  realization  that  it  is  our 
duty  to  give  at  least  as  much  attention  to  the 
breeding  and  rearing  of  babies  as  we  do  to  the 
breeding  and  raising  of  Percheron  horses,  Hol- 
stein cattle  and  Berkshire  hogs?  . . . 

What  is  a baby?  Shall  we  think  of  it  with 
Ellis  Parker  Butler  in  his  beautiful  word  pic- 
ture: “^On  the  sunniest  slope  of  the  garden  of 
Paradise  the  trees  stand  in  long,  pleasant  rows. 


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The  air  is  always  balmy  and  the  trees  forever 
in  bloom  with  pink  and  white  blossoms.  From  a 
distance  the  trees  look  like  apple  trees,  but  close 
at  hand  you  see  that  the  pink  and  white  blossoms 
are  little  bows  and  streamers  of  ribbon  and  that 
the  boughs  are  swaying  gently  with  the  weight 
of  many  dimpled  babies.  Walking  up  and  down 
beneath  the  trees  are  kind  old  storks;  and  as 
they  walk  they  turn  their  heads  and  look  upward, 
to  see  where  there  may  be  a sweet  pink  and 
white  baby  ready  to  be  carried  away  out  of  the 
garden  into  the  big,  strange  world.  It  is  a vast 
garden  and  there  are  many  trees  and  many 
storks,  and  every  moment  there  is  a whirring  of 
strong  wings  and  a stork  has  passed  out  of  the 
confines  of  the  garden  with  the  dearest  gift  that 
Heaven  can  give  to  woman.” 

Or  shall  we  think  of  it  with  Massey:  “A  sweet 
new  blossom  of  humanity,  fresh  fallen  from 
God’s  own  home  to  flower  on  earth.” 

Or  with  Byron: 

“A  lovely  being  scarcely  formed  or  molded, 

A rose  with  all  its  sweetest  leaves  yet  folded.” 

Or  with  Pollock: 

“As  a living  jewel  dropped  unstained  from 
Heaven.” 

I like  these  portraits  of  the  baby,  and  hope  to 
see  our  Government  express  itself  in  the  near 
future  in  the  same  humane  spirit. 


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If  American  civilization  is  to  be  true  to  the 
high  purpose  exprest  in  the  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence, then  indeed  must  you  and  I concede 
in  the  face  of  these  statistics  and  data  which  I 
have  submitted,  that  a new-born  babe  is  en- 
titled to  life,  liberty  and  the  pursuit  of  happi- 
ness, as  well  as  were  our  colonial  ancestors,  and 
no  baby  can  have  either  liberty  or  the  pursuit  of 
happiness  if  its  soul  is  crusht  by  the  gross, 
selfish  and  material  conditions  imposed  upon  it 
by  a brutal  and  an  ignorant  environment. 

Nothing  in  this  wide  world,  nothing  in  this 
boundless-  universe  of  space  and  time,  is  so  deli- 
cate or  so  impressionable  as  the  soul  of  a baby, 
and  instead  of  society  building  its  prison  walls 
of  stone  higher  and  thicker  around  the  full- 
grown  criminal  to  hedge  him  in,  let  us  remember 
that  this  has  been  the  method  and  the  program  of 
those  who  brought  upon  the  world  the  degeneracy 
of  the  dark  ages,  and  let  us  learn  from  this  lesson 
in  history  to  try  some  other  plan  which  can  cer- 
tainly do  no  worse  than  we  have  done  in  the 
past  and  can  easily  do  much  better. 

Let  us  begin  to  develop  the  unexplored  coun^ 
try  of  the  vested  rights  of  babies.  Let  us  build 
high  the  walls  of  love  and  affection  around  each 
new-born  babe,  protecting  it  and  its  five  senses 
from  every  vibration  and  every  impression  that 
could  possibly  besmirch  or  contaminate  a pure 
soul. 


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Let  us  treat  the  baby  as  if  it  were  a message 
direct  from  the  God  of  the  universe.  Let  us  re- 
ceive it  and  welcome  it  to  this  life,  and  let  us 
nurture  it  as  we  would  an  angel  direct  from  the 
throne  of  God. 


THE  PRICE  OF  A DRINK 


I 


If  the  results  of  drinking  were  purely  per- 
sonal, then  the  complaint  of  the  wete  that  the 
anti-liquor  forces  are  trying  to  interfere  with  the 
{/^ personal  liberty  of  drinhers  might  carry  with  it 
some  force;  but  drink  is  sold  on  the  installment 
plan — first  payment  is  made  when  you  get  the 
drink,  the  others  when  the  drink  gets  you! 

The  greater  part  of  the  paym-ents  are  made  by 
those  who  do  not  drink 
The  price  of  a drink  ranges  from  a dime  to 
damnation — the  drinker  pays  the  dime  and  hu- 
manity pays  the  damnation. 

The  immediate  payment  is  made  in  cash,  some 
of  the  delayed  payments  are  made  by  the  drinker 
in  brawn  and  brains,  ambition  and  efficiency, 
morality  and  decency,  duty  and  honor;  but  you 
and  I,  altho  we  never  touch  liquor,  must  pay 
the  price  of  a drink  in  loss  of  trade,  in  loss  of 
profits,  in  damage  suits  in  one  way  or  another. 


* From  an  address  by  Major  Dan  Morgan  Smith,  of  Chicago,  111. 


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depending  upon  our  business,  profession,  or  oc- 
cupation; but  no  one  is  exempt.  The  merchant 
pays  in  loss  of  trade,  for  the  moderate  drinker  of 
to-day  is  the  drunkard  of  to-morrow,  and  drunk- 
ards do  not  buy  liberally  of  groceries,  clothing, 
shoes,  or  of  anything  else,  except  liquor.  If  we 
be  manufacturers,  we  help  pay  the  price  of  a 
drink  when  our  machinery  lies  idle  because  the 
operator  is  sobering  up ; help  pay  the  price  when 
fewer  workmen  report  Monday  than  were  work- 
ing the  preceding  Saturday;  pay  in  sluggish 
brains  and  trembling  limbs ; in  damage  suits 
caused  by  carelessness  or  inefficiency  of  drunken 
workmen;  pay  in  lessened  output  than  the  pay- 
roll justifies  us  in  expecting. 

True,  employers  of  labor  are  seeking  to  avoid 
this  great  drain  upon  their  profits  by  discharging 
the  drinkers ; but  a man  permanently  out  of  work 
becomes  a charge  upon  the  taxpayers,  and  the 
manufacturer  is  a taxpayer.  Supplanting  trained 
workmen  with  untrained  men  is  expensive,  and 
yet  is  less  expensive  than  to  put  up  with  the 
drinker. 

The  union  men  are  paying  installments  upon 
the  price  of  a drink,  for  ultimately  wages  and 
hours  of  labor  must  be  based  upon  the  earning 
capacity  of  the  workman,  and  the  earning  capa- 
city depends  absolutely  upon  willingness,  health 
and  ability,  upon  efficiency;  and  science  leaves 
no  doubt  that  even  one  drink  lessens  efficiency. 


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Farmers  pay  their  installments,  even  tho 
no  person  on  the  farm  were  to  drink,  for  the 
farmer  pays  for  the  drink  of  the  miller  who 
grinds  his  wheat,  and  of  the  clerk  who  sells  the 
flour  to  the  middleman  and  who  stands  between 
the  maker  and  the  consumer.  The  farmer  also 
pays  because  of  the  lessened  demand  for  the 
products  of  his  farm;  but  pays  most  of  all  in 
taxes  expended  to  support  the  cities’  poor  and 
criminals — the  victims  of  drink. 

Professional  men  help  pay,  because  the  drunk- 
ard pays  no  professional  fees. 

Every  taxpayer  is  assessed  to  pay  the  price  of 
a drink,  and  let  us  not  forget  that  every  renter, 
every  buyer  of  anything,  is  a taxpayer.  The  tax- 
payer’s money  is  used  to  pay  the  judges  and  juries 
that  are  trying,  with  so  little  success,  to  stem  the 
tide  of  crime  that  is  unquestionably  attributable, 
in  the  main,  to  the  use  of  drink.  The  taxpayer  sup- 
ports the  penitentiary  that  is  largely  populated 
with  men  who  violate  the  laws  either  when  drink- 
ing or  after  drink  had  made  them  moral  lepers. 
Men  who  should  know  assert  that  75  per  cent,  of 
crime  can  be  directly  traced  to  drink ; that  33  per 
cent,  of  the  inmates  of  asylums  are  there  because 
they,  or  their  ancestors,  were  poisoned  by  drink. 

\J  Social  workers  assert  that  a large  number  of 
women  walk  the  street  because  the  use  of  liquor 
has  lessened  their  resistive  powers,  blunted  their 
moral  senses,  or  excited  their  sexual  desires. 


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Are  these  percentages  true!  Do  these  statis- 
ticians know  what  they  are  talking  about?  I do 
not  know;  but  if  there  be  in  any  penitentiary  one 
person  who  is  there  because  the  government  per- 
mits the  sale  of  liquor;  if  in  some  asylum  there 
is  one  person  who  is  spending  all  of  life  mutter- 
ing foolish  nothings;  if  in  all  the  world  there  is 
one  girl — just  one  little  girl — who  has  kissed  her 
mother  good-by  and  can  never  come  home  again, 
because  of  drink,  then  I am  in  favor  of  NA- 
TIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL  PEOHIBITION. 
If  these  things  be  true,  and  I believe  them  to  be 
true,  I want  to  see  this  country  so  dry  that  a 
rattlesnake’s  bite  won’t  dig  up  a drink  between 
oceans. 

No  small  part  of  the  price  of  a drink  is  paid 
by  the  drinker’s  family.  His  wife  pays  in  lost 
happiness,  deprivations,  shame  and  tears;  his 
children  pay  in  lack  of  opportunity,  in  lessened 
advantages,  and,  worst  of  all,  in  physical  infirmi- 
ties, mental  deficiencies  and  moral  degeneracy. 
Many  children  come  into  the  world  doomed  to 
have  stunted  bodies,  warped  minds  and  blunted 
moral  senses  because  they  were  sired  by  a drunk- 
en father. 

Cities  pay  their  installments  in  waves  of  crime, 
lowered  standards  of  conduct,  the  unwarranted, 
pernicious  and  controlling  influence  of  the  liquor 
interests  in  politics.  Cities  pay  for  the  ineffi- 
ciency and  dishonesty  of  men  elected  to  office  by 


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the  interest  that  makes  hut  one  inquiry  of  the 
office-seeker — “Are  you  a wetU’ 

States  pay  the  price  of  a drink  by  the  passage 
of  vicious  laws  and  the  defeat  of  needed  legisla- 
tion by  legislators  whose  election  was  made  pos- 
sible by  the  activity  of  the  liquor  interests  in 
politics. 

The  National  Government  helps  pay  the  price 
of  a drink  by  putting  its  seal  of  toleration  upon 
the  sale  of  this  damning  article  to  its  citizens; 
by  ignoring  the  fact  that  a government,  as  an 
individual,  can  not  be  pure  if  the  source  of  its 
income  is  impure;  by  pleading  the  need  of  its 
treasury — thus  weighing  dollars  against  decency. 


THE  RESPECTABLE  SALOON  * 

The  reason  why  Sodom  was  doomed  to  de- 
struction was  because  it  was  so  utterly  and  ir- 
retrievably bad  that  nothing  could  be  said  for  it. 
The  same  is  true  of  the  saloon;  it  has  done  e^dl 
and  only  evil  all  the  days  of  its  life.  Now  and 
then  we  hear  of  a “respectable  saloon”;  but 
there  is  no  such  thing.  It  is  impossible  in  the 
nature  of  the  case.  The  business  which  it  car- 
ries on  is  of  such  a character  that  nobody  can  re- 
spect it. 

If  we  take  our  stand  in  the  doorway  of  a 

* From  an  address  by  Dr.  David  James  Burrell,  of  New  York  City. 

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saloon,  we  sliall  see  behind  its  counter  the  figure 
of  a man  in  short  sleeves,  sleek  and  unctuous. 
This  is  the  “barkeep.”  Last  year,  in  our  coun- 
try, he  gathered  in  over  that  counter  more  than 
twelve  hundred  millions  of  dollars,  for  which  he 
passed  out  nothing  but  shame  and  misery.  We 
shall  see  crossing  his  threshold  a multitude  of 
men  who  go  in  sober  and  come  out  drunk;  a vast 
procession,  reeling,  hiccoughing,  staggering — 
whither!  To  the  jails,  to  the  insane  asylums, 
many  to  the  poor-houses,  dragging  with  them 
pale-faced  women  and  weeping  children.  On 
they  go,  reeling,  mumbling,  driveling  out  of  the 
saloon  into  the  world,  to  wreck  their  lives,  ruin 
their  homes  and  burden  society.  On  they  go,  by 
way  of  the  potter’s  field  into  the  night — that  aw- 
ful night  from  which  returns  a voice:  “No 
drunkard  shall  inherit  the  Kingdom  of  God!” 

The  saloon  is  the  enemy  of  man.  It  bloats  his 
visage,  reddens  his  eyes,  seethes  his  flesh  and 
makes  a cesspool  and  common  sewer  of  the  body 
which  was  intended  to  be  a temple  of  the  living 
God.  It  corrupts  his  heart,  enfeebles  his  will, 
paralyses  his  conscience  and  sends  him  through 
the  gutter  to  the  grave.  It  dulls  his  moral  sen’se, 
ruins  his  character,  robs  him  of  his  self-respect 
and  eliminates  him  from  God. 

The  saloon  is  the  enemy  of  the  home.  It  puts 
out  the  fires  upon  the  hearth,  empties  the  barrel 
and  the  cruse,  transforms  the  natural  protector 


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of  the  family  into  a fiend  incarnate,  clothes  his 
wife  in  rags  and  dooms  his  innocent  children  to 
suffering  and  shame.  In  an  article  on  the  ‘ ‘ Tene- 
ment Houses  of  New  York,’'  in  one  of  our  re- 
cent periodicals,  are  two  pictures  of  neighboring 
apartments.  One  is  the  home  of  a widow.  The 
room  is  clean  and  comely.  Her  face  is  sad,  but 
lighted  by  a sweet  hopefulness.  Her  children 
are  playing  merrily  beside  her.  The  other  apart- 
ment is  next  door  and  the  house-band  is  a drunken 
brute.  His  wife  is  there,  bowed  down  and  shame- 
faced, cheeks  sunken  and  pinched,  a poor,  de- 
spairing thing.  His  children  are  ragged  and  un- 
kempt. The  shadow  of  the  brute  is  over  them 
all. 

The  saloon  is  the  enemy  of  the  tvorkshop.  The 
American  working  man  is  the  best  and  most  pros- 
perous on  earth.  The  yeoman  of  England,  with 
his  five  acres  of  ground,  is  not  to  be  compared 
with  him.  The  French  peasant,  drest  in 
wooden  sabots  and  smock-frock  and  owning  a 
little  vineyard  on  a sunny  hillside,  is  not  to  be 
compared  with  him.  The  German  farmer,  con- 
tent to  live  from  hand  to  mouth,  is  not  for  a 
moment  to  be  compared  with  him.  He  expects 
to  make  his  way,  and  is  resolved  that  his  children 
shall  be  happier  and  more  prosperous  than  he. 
All  this  is  true  of  the  sober  workman.  But  the 
majority  of  the  laboring  class  in  our  country 
are  habitual  patrons  of  the  saloon.  The  outlay 


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in  America  for  drink  is  estimated  at  two  billion, 
five  hundred  million  of  dollars  per  annum,  and 
the  largest  part  of  this  comes  from  the  pockets 
of  the  working  men.  Two  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars  per  capita!  Allow  yourself  to  think  for 
a moment  what  a tremendous  increase  there 
would  be  in  the  health  and  comfort  and  happi- 
ness of  our  entire  country  if  only  our  working 
men  could  be  persuaded  to  let  the  drink  alone  for 
a year! 

The  saloon  is  the  enemy  of  the  State.  To  talk 
of  municipal  reform  is  mere  gasconade  so  long 
as  there  are  ten  thousand  dramshops  in  one  city 
legalized  to  corrupt  our  politics  by  mobilizing 
the  vicious  and  purchasable  vote.  Six  thousand 
of  them  are  owned  under  chattel  mortgage  by  a 
syndicate  of  brewers  and  distillers;  a syndicate 
controlled  by  an  executive  board  of  twenty  men. 
What  does  this  mean?  If  five  ballots — a moder- 
ate estimate,  surely — be  credited  to  each  saloon 
you  have  thirty  thousand  voters  (easily  the  bal- 
ance of  power)  under  the  domination  of  twenty 
men  1 And  such  men ! While  this  continues  what, 
in  common  reason,  is  to  be  expected  of  it? 

The  saloon  is  the  enemy  of  the  church.  It 
builds  up  an  impassable  wall  between  the  soul 
and  Calvary;  it  engenders  a bitter  hatred  for 
the  things  that  are  true  and  lovely  and  of  good 
report;  it  bars  the  way  to  the  sanctuary  and 
heaven  like  the  red  dragon  that  guarded  the 


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gates  of  the  Hesperides.  And  in  New  York  City 
there  is  one  church  (open  on  Sunday)  for  every 
five  thousand  people,  and  one  saloon  (open  seven 
days  in  the  week)  for  every  hundred  and  twenty- 
five! 

Well,  what  is  to  he  done  about  it!  Nothing! 
Shall  we  fold  our  hands  and  say,  “The  saloon  as 
an  institution  has  come  to  stay!  It  is  a neces- 
sary evil  and  we  must  endure  it!”  This  is 
moral  cowardice.  What  if  it  has  come  to  stay! 
So  have  smallpox  and  yellow  fever.  So  have 
theft  and  murder  and  adultery;  but  shall  we, 
therefore,  take  no  measures  to  prevent  them! 


WILL  THE  WORKING  MAN  LOSE  HIS  JOB 
AND  HIS  PERSONAL  LIBERTY  IF  THE 
SALOONS  ARE  CLOSED.?* 

The  working  man  fears  being  out  of  work  more 
than  he  does  going  to  hell.  He  knows  what  it 
means  to  walk  the  streets  looking  for  a job.  The 
liquor  interests  have  capitalized  upon  this  fear, 
and  by  presenting  a staggering  array  of  figures 
which  seem  to  prove  that  a calamity  will  follow 
the  abolition  of  the  liquor  traffic,  they  have  per- 
suaded large  numbers  of  working  men  who  never 
enter  a saloon  to  vote  for  its  retention. 

But  the  argument  that  the  working  man  will 

* From  an  address  by  Eev.  Charles  Stelzle,  of  New  York  City. 

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lose  Ms  job  if  the  liquor  traffic  is  abolished  is 
based  upon  the  absurd  proposition  that  if  the 
liquor  dealer  fails  to  get  the  money  now  spent 
for  beer  and  whisky  nobody  else  will  get  it.  To 
listen  to  the  defenders  of  the  saloon,  one  would 
think  that  nobody  likes  grapes  and  cherries  and 
apples  unless  they  come  in  the  form  of  booze. 

It  is  assumed  that  the  farmer  who  now  sells  Ms 
grain  and  grapes,  his  apples  and  cherries,  to  the 
liquor  interests  will  be  compelled  to  destroy 
them,  when  the  fact  is  that  figures  furnished  by 
the  United  States  Government  clearly  indicate 
that  the  ability  of  the  American  farmer  to  raise 
enough  grain  to  adequately  supply  this  country 
is  gradually  decreasing. 

From  1899  to  1909  the  acreage  in  the  United 
States  used  for  raising  cereals — corn,  wheat, 
oats,  barley,  rice — increased  3.5  per  cent.  The 
amount  actually  produced  increased  only  1.7  per 
cent.,  altho  the  population  of  our  country  dur- 
ing this  period  increased  21  per  cent.  At  this 
rate  it  will  not  take  long  for  the  population  to 
catch  up  with  the  farmer.  Meanwhile  the  value 
of  these  cereals  increased  79.87  per  cent. 

Neither  will  the  railroad  man  suffer.  Only 
about  2 per  cent,  of  his  freight  business  is  fur- 
nished by  the  liquor  industry.  He  will  get  as 
much  business,  and  as  much  money  for  the  trans- 
fer of  a given  amount  of  grain,  whether  that  grain 
is  shipped  to  a brewer  or  a baker.  As  for  the 


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transportation  of  tlie  finished  product,  as  well  as 
the  raw  materials  which  the  liquor  industry  now 
furnishes,  there  is  no  doubt  that  other  industries 
will  benefit  from  the  transfer  of  trade  from 
liquor  to  some  other  commodity. 

More  working  men  lose  their  jobs  because  sa- 
loons are  open  than  would  be  the  case  were  the 
saloons  to  be  closed.  As  some  one  has  well  said, 
“When  liquor  puts  a man  out  of  a job  it  unfits 
him  for  another  job.  When  no-license  puts  a 
saloon-keeper  out  of  a job  it  makes  him  a wealth- 
producing  working  man  instead  of  a wealth-de- 
stroying working  man.  It  is  better  that  the  sa- 
loon-keeper should  lose  his  job  and  get  a better 
one  than  that  dozens  of  his  patrons  should  lose 
their  jobs  and  be  unfitted  for  any  job.” 

The  Statistical  Abstract  of  the  United  States 
for  1913  indicates  that  for  every  one  million  dol- 
lars invested  in  six  practical  industries,  the  fol- 
lowing number  of  wage-earners  are  employed — 
liquor,  seventy-seven;  iron,  two  hundred  and 
eighty-four;  paper  and  printing,  three  hundred 
and  sixty-nine;  leather,  four  hundred  and  sixty- 
nine;  textiles,  five  hundred  and  seventy-four; 
lumber,  five  hundred  and  seventy-nine. 

The  ratio  of  wages  paid  to  capital  invested  in 
this  group  of  industries  is  as  follows : liquor  5.6 
per  cent.;  paper  and  printing  21.3  per  cent; 
leather  23.5  per  cent.;  textiles  23.9  per  cent.; 
lumber  27.1  per  cent. 


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The  liquor  men  argue  that  some  industries  em- 
ploy even  fewer  workers  for  every  million  dol- 
lars invested  than  does  the  liquor  industry,  but 
were  one  to  make  a complete  analysis  of  all  the 
industries  in  question,  with  reference  to  the  capi- 
tal invested,  the  number  of  workers  employed, 
the  ratio  of  wages  received  to  the  amount  of  cap- 
ital invested,  and  the  value  of  the  raw  materials 
required,  the  liquor  industry  would  make  a very 
poor  showing. 

The  slightly  higher  rate  of  wages  paid  in  the 
liquor  industry  as  compared  with  some  other  in- 
dustries is  more  than  overbalanced  by  the  enor- 
mous death-rate  of  those  who  manufacture  and 
dispense  intoxicating  liquor.  The  recent  Medico- 
Actuarial  Mortality  Investigation,  made  under 
the  auspices  of  forty-three  of  the  leading  Life 
Insurance  Companies  of  the  United  States  and 
Canada,  indicates  that  the  death-rate  of  brewers 
in  this  country  is  52  per  cent,  higher  than  the 
“expected  deaths”  in  this  industry.  While  that 
of  waiters  in  restaurants,  hotels  and  clubs,  where 
liquor  is  served,  is  77  per  cent,  higher  than  the 
“expected  deaths”  in  this  group.  That  the  death 
rate  in  some  other  industries  is  also  in  excess  of 
the  average  death-rate  for  all  occupied  males  is 
not  an  argument  in  favor  of  the  liquor  business. 
The  liquor  industry  can  not  hide  behind  others’ 
sins. 

We  spend  in  this  country  about  $2,000,000,000 


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for  intoxicating  liquor.  About  the  same  sum  is 
^ spent  for  bread  and  clothing.  If  the  $2,000,000,- 
000  now  spent  for  liquor  were  to  be  spent  for 
bread  and  clothing,  it  would  give  employment  to 
nearly  eight  times  as  many  workers  who  would 
collectively  receive  five  and  a half  times  as  much 
wages.  It  would  require  over  $650,000,000  worth 
of  additional  raw  material  than  the  liquor  indus- 
try now  uses — that  is,  more  than  five  times  as 
much  raw  material,  the  production  of  which 
would  add  greatly  to  the  number  of  workers  who 
would  thus  be  employed. 

We  undoubtedly  receive  through  taxes  on  the 
liquor  business  large  sums  of  money,  but  it  has 
hnen  said  by  reliable  authorities  that  liquor  is 
(/^ responsible  in  this  country  for  25  per  cent,  of 
the  poverty,  19  per  cent,  of  the  divorces,  25  per 
cent,  of  the  insanity,  37  per  cent,  of  the  child  de- 
sertion, and  50  per  cent,  of  the  crime.  In  the 
last  analysis  who  pays  for  all  this?  The  work- 
ing man.  He  pays  his  taxes,  no  matter  who  else 
evades  them,  and  a very  considerable  percentage 
of  these  taxes  is  used  to  care  for  the  wreckage 
of  the  liquor  business.  The  working  man  carries 
upon  his  back  all  non-producers,  and  those  who 
are  cared  for  by  the  State  are  non-producers. 
The  working  man  is  making  a heavy  contribution 
to  maintain  the  liquor  business  and  its  by- 
products, even  tho  he  may  not  patronize  the 
saloon,  and  even  tho  he  receives  no  benefit 


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from  the  saloon  business,  either  directly  or  in- 
directly. 

We  have  been  told  that  a man  has  a right  to 
drink  as  much  beer  and  whisky  as  he  pleases — 
that  he  has  as  much  right  to  drink  a glass  of 
whisky  as  you  have  to  drink  a cup  of  tea.  How- 
ever, you  never  heard  of  a man  killing  another 
while  he  was  under  the  influence  of  tea.  In  this 
country  there  is  no  such  thing  as  absolute  liberty. 
You  may  exercise  your  liberty  only  in  so  far  as 
it  does  not  interfere  with  the  liberty  of  your 
neighbor. 

We  talk  about  the  “simplicity”  of  a democ- 
racy. As  a matter  of  fact,  a democracy  is  the 
most  complex  form  of  government.  In  the  United 
States  we  have  one  hundred  million  inhabitants, 
every  one  of  whom  regards  himself  as  being  as 
good  as  his  neighbor — if  not  a little  bit  better. 
Every  one  of  us  must  consider  the  well-being  of 
the  rest  of  the  hundred  million.  In  law  and  in  civili- 
zation the  first  consideration  is  not  the  individual, 
but  society.  Therefore  anything  that  the  indi- 
vidual may  do  which  injures  society  is  not  per- 
mitted. The  working  man  may  not  spend  his 
wages  as  he  pleases — the  law  compels  him  to  sup- 
port his  wife  and  children.  He  is  compelled  to 
send  his  children  to  school,  even  tho  he,  him- 
self, may  not  believe  in  education,  for  these  chil- 
dren are  the  State’s  as  well  as  his  own.  Every 
housekeeper  is  compelled  to  maintain  her  kitchen 


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and  her  backyard  in  a sanitary  condition.  If 
she  doesn’t,  the  sanitary  inspector  will  get  after 
her. 

A man  may  not  do  with  his  own  body  as  he 
t-  pleases.  Suppose  he  tries  to  kill  it — to  commit 
suicide.  If  he  succeeds,  Billy  Sunday  says  he’ll 
go  to  hell.  If  he  fails,  he’ll  go  to  jail.  And  yet 
if  the  United  States  Government  should  decide 
to  go  to  war  with  Germany  or  any  other  nation 
it  assumes  the  right,  if  necessary,  to  send  him  to 
the  front  to  be  shot  down.  He  belongs  to  the 
State  as  well  as  to  himself.  We  have  recently 
passed  most  stringent  laws  against  the  sale  and 
use  of  certain  kinds  of  drugs,  because  of  the 
great  injury  which  their  use  inflicts  upon  the 
human  mind  and  body. 

If  the  State  should  decide  that  the  -saloon  is  a 
menace,  and  that  it  dispenses  poison,  then  society 
has  a right  to  say  that  the  saloon  must  go,  no 
matter  how  it  may  affect  anybody’s  personal 
liberty.  We  accept  the  restriction  which  the 
State  imposes  upon  us  in  other  relationships. 
Why  not  accept  it  with  regard  to  the  saloon, 
especially  since  it  has  been  so  clearly  demon- 
strated that  the  interests  of  the  saloon  are  al- 
ways opposed  to  the  interests  of  the  working 
man? 


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PROHIBITION  AND  THE  DESTRUCTION  OF 
PROPERTY  * 

The  liquor  dealers  say  that  their  property 
will  be  destroyed,  and  a large  number  of  men 
thrown  out  of  employment;  but  there  will  be 
no  property  destroyed — only  its  use  prevented 
for  an  immoral  business,  and  there  will  be  for 
the  most  part  only  a change  of  employment,  and 
the  process  of  adjustment  will  be  rapid. 

According  to  the  Federal  Census  of  1910  there 
are  only  62,000  persons  engaged  in  the  liquor 
business  in  the  United  States,  and  more  than  this 
number  were  killed  outright  in  just  three  battles 
of  the  Civil  War. 

Three  million  slaves  were  liberated  in  the 
South,  of  the  average  value  of  $1,000  each,  and 
other  property  of  all  descriptions  was  wholly  de- 
stroyed, and  millions  of  debt  were  piled  upon 
the  States,  for  which  they  received  no  benefit  by 
the  saturnalia  of  misrule  which  existed  after  the 
surrender,  but  the  Government  never  counted  the 
loss  of  life  and  treasure,  and  the  South  soon 
rallied  her  physical  and  moral  forces,  accepted 
the  results,  and  is  marching  on  to  the  music  of 
the  Union  to  a higher  and  richer  destiny. 

In  this  moral  and  economic  battle  we  are  wag- 
ing, the  States  have  done  their  part  in  creating 

* From  an  address  by  Former  Governor  Malcom  B.  Patterson,  of 
Tennessee. 


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public  sentiment,  in  disorganizing  and  crippling 
the  forces  of  the  liquor  traffic;  but  if  their  splen- 
did work  shall  be  complete  we  must  strike  at  the 
central  power. 

It  is  related  in  fable  that  a hideous,  many- 
headed monster  inhabited  the  Lernean  bogs.  It 
emitted  pestilential  vapors  from  its  nostrils, 
darts  of  fire  from  its  eyes;  it  terrorized  and  de- 
voured the  people  and  ravaged  all  the  shores  of 
Argos.  One  of  the  tasks  set  for  Hercules  was  the 
extermination  of  this  terrible  creature,  and  it 
was  thought  that  he,  as  all  others,  would  fail  and 
meet  his  own  destruction.  But  full  of  confidence, 
armed  with  his  mighty  club  and  animated  by  the 
hope  of  relief  he  might  bring  the  people,  Her- 
cules went  forth  to  give  battle.  He  at  last  came 
upon  the  monster  and  in  the  contest  which  en- 
sued he  found  to  his  amazement  that  as  fast  as 
he  struck  off  one  head  another  grew  in  its  place. 
He  then  discovered  that  one  central  head  was 
the  source  of  intelligence  and  direction,  giving  to 
the  others  the  power  of  reproduction,  and  the 
efforts  of  Hercules  were  concentrated  and  re- 
doubled to  knock  this  central  head  from  its  neck. 
As  the  fight  became  more  furious,  a crab  was 
sent  up  from  the  sea  to  pinch  his  heel  and  divert 
his  attention.  But  Hercules  found  time  to  kill 
the  crab  and  with  the  mighty  blows  of  his  club  he 
succeeded  at  last  in  knocking  off  the  central  head, 
which  he  buried  deep  in  the  earth,  and  over  its 


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grave  rolled  an  enormous  stone  so  that  it  could, 
never  rise  again.  Having  lost  the  power  of  re- 
production, the  other  heads  were  soon  dis- 
patched ; and  when  the  people  heard  of  the  death 
of  the  monster,  there  was  loud  rejoicing  for  their 
deliverance,  and  Hercules  was  proclaimed  their 
savior. 

This  fable,  coming  from  the  mists  of  antiquity, 
is  a fact  of  the  twentieth  century  civilization; 
and  Truth,  like  Hercules,  has  been  set  a mighty 
task.  She  has  gone  forth  armed  with  the  sword 
of  justice,  to  redeem  a land  from  the  monster  of 
the  liquor  traffic,  as  many-headed  and  hideous,  as 
pestilential  and  terrifying,  as  that  which  lived  in 
the  Lernean  bogs.  Like  Hercules,  she  discovered 
that  the  heads  of  the  monster,  too,  have  the 
power  of  reproduction;  that  whenever  one  head 
is  severed,  it  sprouts  again,  and  she  has  found 
the  central  head  which  gives  life  and  power  to  all 
the  rest. 

The  subsidiary  heads  which  are  thus  endowed 
rear  themselves  in  the  forty-eight  States  of  the 
Union  and  the  central  head,  sleepless,  watchful 
and  malignant,  rears  itself  above  the  Capitol  at 
Washington  and  derives  its  life  and  fatal  power 
of  reproduction  from  the  protection  and  privi- 
leges of  the  Government. 

Truth  is  waging  a glorious  fight  for  the  people ; 
but  as  the  fight  grows  fiercest,  the  critical  crabs 
of  personal  liberty  and  States’  rights  have  been 


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sent  up  from  the  sea  to  nip  her  heel  and  divert 
her  attention ; but  Truth  will  find  time  to  dispose 
of  these,  and,  like  Hercules,  she  will  complete  her 
task,  and  not  till  then,  when  she  cuts  the  central 
head  of  the  liquor  traffic  from  its  root  in  the 
National  Government,  buries  it,  and  rolls  the 
heavy  stone  of  outraged  humanity  over  its  dis- 
honored grave. 

Then  the  other  heads  of  this  modem  monster, 
having  lost  the  power  of  reproduction,  will  die, 
and  the  people,  like  those  of  Argos,  will  proclaim 
Truth  their  savior  and  honor  her  name  forever. 


OUR  COUNTRY’S  CRIME  AGAINST  THE 
CRADLE  * 

The  paramount  problem  of  the  nation  is  the 
problem  of  the  child,  for  the  child  is  the  nation 
in  embryo.  The  influences  that  touch  the  chil- 
dren of  to-day  will  determine  the  character  of 
the  nation  of  to-morrow.  In  the  child’  we  see  the 
future  man  and  the  future  mother;  we  see  our 
future  commerce,  our  future  home,  our  future 
church,  our  future  school  and  our  future  re- 
public. 

In  the  American  cradle  lies  the  nation’s  chief 
wealth,  her  largest  responsibility,  her  surest  de- 
fense and  her  greatest  glory.  We  should  cherish 

* From  an  address  by  Dr.  A.  C.  Bane,  of  Westerville,  Ohio. 

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the  child  as  the  material  out  of  which  we  mold 
citizenship. 

As  I study  child  life,  especially  in  the  great 
congested  centers  of  population,  I am  forced  to 
the  conviction  that  thousands  of  our  children  de- 
serve a better  birth,  better  parents,  a better 
home,  a better  education  and  a better  environ- 
ment. 

, There  has  crept  into  this  nation  a malignant 
enemy  to  American  youth.  A serpent  has  coiled 
in  the  American  cradle,  and  momentarily  threat- 
ens the  vigor,  character  and  life  of  every  Ameri- 
can child.  A foreign  foe,  armed  with  a bottle, 
has  been  permitted  and  authorized  by  our  Gov- 
ernment to  invade  every  home  in  the  Republic, 
and  for  gold,  to  assault  the  health,  morals  and 
very  existence  of  every  baby  that  blesses  our 
homes,  and  thus  to  imperil  the  future  of  the  nation 
^tself.  It  is  the  traffic  in  alcoholic  liquors,  per- 
sonified as  John  Barleycorn. 

The  liquor  traffic  hurts  the  child,  first  by  hurt- 
ing its  father  and  mother.  Thousands  of  chil- 
dren are  born  into  this  world  with  poisoned 
blood,  disordered  nerves,  weakened  bodies,  and 
enfeebled  minds  because  of  the  drink  habits  of 
their  parents.  You  may  never  have  been  drunk 
in  your  life,  but  if  you  drink  alcoholic  liquors 
you  are  apt  to  transmit  to  your  offspring  an  en- 
feebled body  or  mind  and  handicap  them  for- 
ever. When  you  look  upon  a deformed,  blind, 


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idiotic  or  feeble-minded  child  you  are  generally, 
tho  not  always,  looking  upon  the  fruit  of  drink. 
Liquor  is  blighting  the  offspring  of  drinking  par- 
ents and  degenerating  the  race.  The  question  of 
the  relation  of  drink  to  degeneracy  is  receiving 
more  public  consideration  to-day  than  ever  be- 
fore. 

It  has  been  found  in  Germany,  after  years  of 
investigation,  that  of  the  children  born  to  totally 
abstaining  parents  82  per  cent,  were  born  normal, 
while  18  per  cent,  were  born  defective  or  degen- 
erate; but  it  was  also  found  that  of  the  children 
born  to  regular  hard-drinking  parents,  only  17% 
per  cent,  of  them  were  born  normal,  while  82% 
per  cent,  were  born  defective  in  body,  mind,  or 
both. 

In  Great  Britain,  of  sixty-one  children  of  ten 
abstaining  families  examined,  fifty  were  found 
normal  and  but  eleven  defective,  while  of  fifty- 
seven  children  of  ten  heavy  drinking  families, 
forty-seven  were  found  defective  and  but  ten 
normal. 

Dr.  Levy,  of  Paris,  has  recently  investigated 
fifty-nine  children  of  twelve  abstaining  families 
and  found  fifty  normal  and  but  nine  defective ; he 
also  examined  fifty-nine  children  of  twelve  intem- 
perate families,  and  found  but  nine  normal  and 
fifty  defective  or  degenerate  through  their  par- 
ents’ use  of  liquor. 

Scientists  in  our  country  have  declared  that 


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65  per  cent,  of  the  defective  children  are  made 
defective  by  the  liquor  consumed  by  their  parents 
or  by  themselves.  Dr.  Alexander  MacNichol,  of 
New  York  City,  declares  that  91  per  cent,  of  the 
school  children  of  hard-drinking  parents  in  that 
city  are  suffering  from  some  functional  or  or- 
ganic disease.  The  Deputy  Commissioner  of 
Education  in  New  York  State  said  in  a public 
address  on  May  18, 1916,  that  of  2,000,000  children 
in  the  public  schools  of  that  State,  1,000,000 
of  them  were  physically  defective.  Dr.  Foster, 
of  Oakland,  California,  Director  of  Health 
and  Sanitation  in  the  public  schools  of  that  city, 
reports  that  62  per  cent,  of  the  pupils,  on  exam- 
ination in  1915,  were  found  physically  defective. 

What  is  the  future  of  the  nation  when  62  per 
cent,  of  her  children  are  physically  defective?  If 
the  defectives  among  children  curst  by  liquor 
in  our  great  cities  were  not  counterbalanced  by 
the  virile  children  who  live  in  the  country  dis- 
tricts not  infested  with  saloons,  we  would  soon 
have  a race  unfit  for  the  duties  of  either  peace 
or  war.  Unless  we  stop  the  use  of  alcoholic 
liquors,  within  a few  generations  our  defective 
citizens  will  outnumber  the  normal  and  healthy. 
Then  this  Republic  is  doomed. 

Dr.  MacNichol  declares  that  the  number  of  in- 
sane and  feeble-minded  in  this  nation  has  in- 
creased 950  per  cent,  in  the  last  fifty  years, 
largely  through  the  use  of  alcoholic  liquors.  Forty 


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per  cent,  of  the  increasing  thousands  of  feeble- 
minded children  incarcerated  in  our  State  insti- 
tutions had  drinking  parents.  You  need  no 
greater  reason  to  fight  this  traffic. 

Liquor  is  the  chief  cause  of  our  large  infant 
mortality.  Our  best  medical  authorities  declare 
that  for  every  child  of  totally  abstaining  parents 
that  dies  before  reaching  two  years  of  age,  five 
children  of  drinking  parents  die.  Dr.  Sullivan 
^ declares  that  55  per  cent,  of  the  children  of  alco- 
holic parents  die  under  two  years  of  age.  Dr. 
Knox,  of  Johns  Hopkins  University,  says  that  58 
per  cent,  of  all  the  children  born  to  hard-drinking 
mothers  die  before  reaching  two  years  of  age. 

Eighty  years  ago,  when  Sweden  was  a heavy- 
drinking nation,  two  hundred  babies  out  of  every 
thousand  horn  died  in  their  infancy.  To-day, 
when  Sweden  is  a strong  temperance  nation,  but 
eighty  babies  die  out  of  every  thousand  horn. 

In  Bavaria,  the  greatest  beer-drinking  nation 
on  earth,  three  hundred  babies  out  of  every  thou- 
sand are  born  dead,  and  an  average  of  69,000 
more  annually  die  before  they  are  one  year  of 
age.  Poisoned  to  death  by  the  alcohol  consumed 
c/  by  their  parents.  Yet  the  brewers  advertise  beer 
as  a “health  drink.” 

In  Greater  New  York  one-seventh  of  all  the 
babies  die  before  they  reach  one  year  of  age, 
and  this  number  equals  one-fourth  of  all  the 
deaths  in  that  city.  If  our  livestock  lost  by 


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death  as  large  a proportion  of  their  young,  there 
would  rise  a universal  protest,  and  a universal 
etfort  would  be  made  to  prevent  it. 

The  United  States  Government  reports  show 
that  the  number  of  living  children  decreases  in 
proportion  to  the  amount  of  liquor  consumed  by 
their  parents,  while  the  number  of  dead  children 
correspondingly  increases.  To  prevent  this  crim- 
inal slaughter  of  innocent  children  should  be  re- 
garded by  our  law-makers  as  their  first  duty. 

The  liquor  traffic  is  forcing  thousands  of  chil- 
dren to  live  in  conditions  of  squalor  and  poverty ; 
in  hovels  where  there  is  no  sewer  nor  sunlight 
nor  pure  air.  They  are  forced  to  live  in  these 
unhealthy  quarters  because  their  parents  have 
wasted  their  substance  for  drink  and  hence  can 
not  afford  a better  home.  Such  children  sicken 
and  die  in  their  infancy.  Two  hundred  thousand 
babies  annually  die  in  this  nation,  and  Jane  ^ 
Addams  says  one-half  of  them  are  preventable 
deaths.  Every  drop  of  blood  in  our  veins  should 
recoil  at  this  slaughter  of  innocent  children  by 
the  legalized  saloon  until  we  are  ready  to  fight  in 
their  defense. 

The  liquor  traffic  curses  thousands  of  children 
with  unworthy  parents,  parents  who  are  unfitted 
to  train  them  for  citizenship,  parents  whose  ex- 
ample in  the  home  bespeaks  a profligate  child. 
Recently  in  California  a Superior  Judge  sen- 
tenced a boy  to  life  imprisonment  for  the  death 


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of  a sixteen-year-old  girl.  On  the  same  day  the 
same  Judge,  in  the  same  court-room,  committed 
that  boy’s  father  to  an  insane  asylum  as  a hope- 
less inebriate  through  drink.  Such  a father  could 
give  to  society  only  such  a son. 

Thousands  of  children  annually  are  deserted 
by  drunken  parents,  thousands  more  are  taken 
away  from  their  parents  by  order  of  the  court 
because  they  are  unfit  to  train  them.  Ninety  per 
cent,  of  the  neglected  and  dependent  children  in 
San  Francisco  were  made  dependent  on  public 
charity  through  their  parents’  drunkenness.  An 
average  of  about  5,000  babies  are  smothered  to 
death  annually  in  America  by  the  overlaying  of 
drunken  mothers. 

Sixty-nine  per  cent,  of  the  nation’s  drunkards 
learned  to  drink  before  they  were  twenty-one 
years  of  ageVzb  per  cent,  of  our  juvenile  offend- 
ers are  offerers  as  the  result  of  their  parents’ 
drink  habits  ;one-third  of  the  divorces  are  caused 
by  drink,  and  the  children  thereby  suffer;  22  per 
cent,  of  the  children  of  alcoholic  parents  are  suf- 
fering from  the  great  white  plague,  tuberculosis. 
Drink  makes  parents  utterly  unworthy  and  unfit 
to  bear  or  to  train  children,  and  we  will  soon 
be  forced  to  say  that  men  and  women  must  cease 
to  drink  or  cease  to  marry. 

The  liquor  traffic  gives  to  thousands  of  chil- 
dren a vicious  and  immoral  environment  in  which 
to  live,  lowering  their  ideals,  robbing  the  boy  of 


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his  manliness  and  the  girl  of  her  modesty,  and 
developing  in  many  of  them  criminal  traits.  The 
street  is  their  only  playground,  and  their  only 
associates  are  the  unmoral  or  immoral.  We  won- 
der sometimes  why  so  many  of  our  boys  and  girls 
go  wrong.  The  wonder  is  that  under  such  envi- 
ronment as  the  saloon  creates  in  our  great  cities 
so  many  of  them  remain  true  to  God  and  to  the 
standards  of  righteousness.  To  such  children  the 
gateway  to  dissipation  and  crime  is  always  near 
and  accessible.  This  explains  why  the  majority 
of  criminals  become  such  before  they  are  twenty- 
five  years  of  age.  One  saloon  located  in  your 
community  will  curse  your  children  and  your 
children’s  children,  both  physically  and  morally, 
for  generations. 

The  chief  cause  of  orphanage  is  drink.  In 
some  cities  60  per  cent,  of  the  orphans  were 
made  orphans  by  the  drink  habits  of  their  par- 
ents. While  we  live  in  our  comfortable  homes, 
the  American  people  are  to-day  rocking  a cradle 
that  holds  860,000  liquor  orphans,  all  robbed  of 
their  parents  by  drink.  Children  were  bom  for 
homes,  not  for  institutions,  and  the  traffic  that 
robs  childhood  of  its  home  is  childhood’s  chief 
foe. 

Liquor  is  chiefly  responsible  for  child  labor; 
there  are  2,000,000  children  under  sixteen  years 
of  age  in  this  country  working  for  wages  in  the 
sweatshops  and  factories.  Most  of  them  have 


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been  forced  to  work  because  liquor  has  incapaci- 
tated their  parents  for  earning  a living.  They 
are  thus  robbed  of  an  education,  robbed  of  their 
childhood  play,  made  old  before  their  time  and 
forced  into  improper  associations  by  the  most 
cruel  influence  in  American  life,  the  organized 
liquor  traffic. 

In  New  York  State  little  children,  yes,  babies 
four  years  old,  were  found  working  in  the  vege- 
table canneries.  The  parents  of  some  of  those 
children  would  get  them  up  at  five  o’clock  in  the 
morning  in  order  to  get  them  ready  and  to  work 
by  seven  o’clock,  and  in  the  rush  season  would 
work  them  till  nine  o’clock  at  night,  and  when 
these  babies  would  fall  asleep  at  their  work,  their 
mothers  would  slap  them  to  wake  them  up  that 
they  might  earn  a few  more  pennies  with  which 
to  eke  out  a miserable  existence,  because  a brute 
of  a man  who  had  promised  to  support  his  fam- 
ily was  drunk  and  his  babies  had  to  work  to  sup- 
port him.  The  quickest  way  to  stop  child  labor 
is  to  unite  to  destroy  the  liquor  traffic. 

Liquor  is  robbing  our  children  of  an  education. 
Dr.  MacNichol,  who  has  examined  50,000  school 
children  in  New  York  City,  declares  that  the  chil- 
dren of  drinking  parents,  and  the  children  who 
are  allowed  to  drink  beer  and  wine  with  their 
V meals,  are  the  dullards  in  schools.  They  can  not 
keep  up  with  their  classes  because  their  brains 
are  stupefied  by  alcohol.  On  investigation,  I 


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found  in  California  that  the  liquor  traffic  robbed 
seventeen  out  of  every  one  hundred  children  of  a 
grammar  school  education,  and  robbed  forty- 
seven  out  of  every  one  hundred  of  a high  school 
education.  This  is  explained  by  the  fact  that  the 
liquor  habit  lessens  the  ambition  for  an  educa- 
tion, that  many  parents  refuse  to  send  their  chil- 
dren away  from  home  to  a high  school  if  it  is 
located  in  a city  of  saloons,  and  that  many  when 
they  reach  the  high  school  age  must  stay  out  of 
school  and  work  to  help  support  the  family  be- 
cause liquor  has  unfitted  the  father  for  support- 
ing his  family. 

In  Prohibition  states  and  cities  a much  larger 
per  cent,  of  the  children  of  school  age  are  at- 
tending school  than  in  States  and  cities  curst 
with  saloons.  In  Maine,  under  Prohibition,  86.7 
of  the  children  of  school  age  are  actually  attend- 
ing school.  In  wet  San  Francisco  but  55  per 
cent,  attend  school — while  in  Indianapolis  but  66 
per  cent,  of  the  children  of  school  age  are  at- 
tending school.  Nineteen  thousand  children  of 
school  age  in  Indianapolis  are  out  of  school,  or 
one  in  every  three. 

Prohibition  Kansas  reports  the  smallest  per 
cent,  of  illiteracy  of  any  State  in  the  Union.  In 
Kansas  City,  Kansas,  within  six  months  after 
the  saloons  were  closed,  six  hundred  boys  and 
girls  between  twelve  and  sixteen  years  of  age 
started  to  school  for  the  first  time  in  their  lives. 


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They  had  been  forced  to  stay  out  of  school  to 
help  earn  a living  for  their  mothers  and  little 
brothers  and  sisters  because  drink  had  incapaci- 
tated their  fathers,  hut  when  the  saloons  were 
closed,  those  fathers  straightened  up  and  became 
men  and  supported  their  own  families,  hence 
their  children  could  then  attend  school. 

An  institution  that  robs  our  children  of  an 
education  is  putting  upon  them  a double  curse. 
It  keeps  them  in  ignorance,  and  from  the  igno- 
rant and  uneducated  classes  come  the  criminal 
class.  You  seldom  find  a college  graduate  or  a 
high  school  graduate  a criminal.  So  the  liquor 
traffic  robs  our  youth  of  the  education  that  equips 
for  the  highest  usefulness,  and  educates  them  for 
crime.  How  can  the  lovers  of  children  longer 
tolerate  this  curse? 

The  liquor  traffic  deprives  our  youth  of  that 
measure  of  mental  and  physical  efficiency  that 
qualifies  them  to  meet  the  highest  and  most 
sacred  obligations  of  citizenship. 

Their  capacity  as  wealth-producers  is  dimin- 
ished, and  they  become  a vast  horde  of  wealth 
consumers. 

They  are  unable  to  add  to  the  moral  character 
of  the  nation,  but  rather  become  contributors 
to  all  the  personal  and  national  vices. 

Our  youth  are  unfitted  by  liquor  to  be  defend- 
ers of  the  nation’s  flag  or  of  the  vital  institutions 


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of  the  Republic,  but  are  soon  numbered  among 
the  foes  of  good  government. 

The  liquor  traffic  weakens  our  Republic’s  only 
natural  defense  by  making  our  young  men  unfit 
to  bear  arms  in  times  of  war. 

During  the  Spanish- American  War,  Colonel 
Mans,  Surgeon  of  the  U.  S.  Army,  reported  that 
76  per  cent,  of  the  young  men  who  applied  for 
enlistment  were  found  physically  or  mentally 
unfit  to  serve,  either  from  their  own  drink  habits 
or  from  the  drink  habits  of  their  parents.  Cap- 
tain Pinkston,  recruiting  officer  for  the  United 
States  Marine  Corps,  stationed  in  New  York 
City,  reports  that  among  the  nearly  12,000  young 
men  in  New  York  who  applied  for  enlistment  in 
1915,  only  2.8  per  cent,  were  found  physically 
qualified  to  serve,  and  reporting  for  all  the  re- 
cruiting stations  in  the  nation  says  that  but  a 
little  more  than  9 per  cent,  of  the  total  number 
who  applied  for  enlistment  could  pass  the  physi- 
cal examination.  Congress  recently  authorized 
the  adding  of  20,000  more  men  to  our  regular 
army  to  recruit  the  army  to  its  maximum 
strength,  to  meet  the  difficult  situation  in  Mexico. 
But  of  the  young  men  who  have  applied,  less 
than  one  in  five  have  been  found  physically  fit  to 
enlist.  A United  States  Army  recruiting  officer 
in  Western  New  York  told  me  in  May  that  he 
had  been  able  to  accept  but  one  out  of  every 
eight  who  had  applied  for  enlistment.  Where  is 


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our  boasted  defense,  when  but  9 per  cent,  of  the 
young  men  of  the  nation  are  qualified  to  follow 
the  flag  and  fight  in  defense  of  the  nation’s 
honor?  Congress  is  much  exercised  over  the  sub- 
ject of  preparedness.  It  is  planning  more  guns 
and  battleships  for  our  army  and  navy,  but  more 
than  we  need  guns  and  battleships,  we  need  men 
physically,  mentally  and  morally  qualified  to 
carry  the  guns  and  man  the  battleships.  The 
^^__^greatest  step  this  nation  could  take  for  prepared- 
ness, would  be  to  prohibit  the  further  manufac- 
ture and  sale  of  alcoholic  liquors  and  give  us 
National  Prohibition,  destroying  totally  the  liquor 
traffic,  which,  if  unchecked,  will  soon  leave  us  a 
weak,  degenerated,  decadent  and  defenseless  na- 
tion. 

Our  nation’s  birth-rate  is  decreasing,  hence  the 
necessity  of  preserving,  strong  and  clean,  the 
lives  of  as  many  as  possible  of  the  children  who 
are  being  born.  What  is  there  to  encourage 
motherhood  among  the  wives  of  America,  if  they 
must  bear  children  only  to  see  them  debauched 
and  destroyed  by  a cruel  traffic  encouraged  by 
the  nation,  against  which  they  have  no  power  to 
protect  them? 

The  Government  protects  our  cattle,  hogs, 
horses  and  sheep  from  disease;  protects  our  cot- 
ton, our  corn  and  our  fruit  from  pests ; and  pro- 
tects the  deer,  dove  and  duck  from  the  gun  of 
the  sportsman. 


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Is  it  not  about  time  that  we  as  a nation  were 
^ protecting  our  children,  born  in  God’s  image, 
they  only  who  can  defend  and  perpetuate  the  Re- 
public and  her  institutions?  There  will  come  a 
time  in  this  Republic  when  we  would  call  out  the 
army  and  navy  and  batter  down  any  brewery, 
distillery  or  saloon  that  would  undertake  to  make 
or  sell  liquor  to  poison  our  youth. 

Let  us  drive  out  the  liquor  traffic  and  give  our 
children  a chance  to  become  the  kind  of  men  and 
women  who  make  and  preserve  great  nations. 


DESTROYING  THE  GREAT  DESTROYER* 

The  great  war  is  having  a far-reaching  in- 
fluence throughout  the  whole  civilized  world.  Not 
only  in  turning  the  thoughts  of  men  to  their 
country  and  to  humanity,  and  toward  the  great 
realities  of  life  and  death,  but  also  in  extending 
the  educational  knowledge  of  the  truth  and  trag- 
edy of  alcohol  throughout  the  masses  of  human- 
ity everywhere.  There  can  be  but  one  result; 
the  cause  of  Prohibition  must  now  rapidly  ripen 
and  the  present  generation  is  destined  to  destroy 
the  great  destroyer  and  inaugurate  a new  era  in 
the  life  history  of  the  human  race. 

We  must  hasten  the  writing  of  Prohibition  into 

* From  an  address  by  Capt.  Eiebmond  P.  Hobson,  of  Alabama 
and  Illinois. 


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the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  and  the 
calling  together  in  America  of  a Great  Conclave 
of  all  Nations,  where  Jew  will  join  Gentile,  where 
Protestant  will  join  Catholic,  where  Celt  and 
^ Slav  and  Saxon  and  Teuton  and  Latin,  where 
yellow  man  and  black  man  and  brown  man  and 
white  man,  will  all  join  hands  and  take  common 
action  to  outlaw  the  liquor  traffic  from  inter- 
national commerce  and  quickly  insure  that  the 
debauching  of  the  young  shall  end,  that  the 
young  generation  shall  grow  up  sober,  thus  com- 
pleting the  greatest  reform  of  all  ages. 

In  this  great  warfare  we  have  the  eternal  ques- 
tion of  contending  forces,  but  great  liquor  forces 
comprising  brewers,  distillers,  wholesalers,  job- 
bers, retailers  and  allied  trades  are  entrenched  in 
the  appetites,  habits,  social  customs,  politics,  and 
institutions  of  the  world.  The  warfare,  there- 
fore, is  in  the  nature  of  trench  warfare.  We 
must  cut  off  as  fast  as  possible  all  enemy  com- 
munications with  moral  and  uplift  forces,  and 
must  rapidly  align  these  forces  on  our  side.  The 
resort  to  the  organic  law  and  the  wording  of  the 
proposed  amendment  to  the  constitution  enable 
us  to  do  this.  Liquor  can  not  claim  to  he  pro- 
tecting individual  liberty,  the  home,  or  any  other 
righteous  cause,  hut  only  asking  to  be  allowed  to 
use  the  public  channels  of  trade  to  carry  on  its 
work  of  death  and  destiniction.  In  my  address 
before  the  convention  at  Atlantic  City,  I dis- 


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cust  in  some  detail  the  question  of  our  forces 
— men,  material,  and  operation.  I simply  make 
the  following  suggestions  in  the  way  of  supple- 
mental recommendations : 

In  Recruiting  we  should  federalize  all  States 
and  local  forces  and  should  get  each  individual 
person,  man  or  woman,  whether  a member  of  a 
temperance  organization  or  cooperative  with  one, 
to  become  a recruiting  agent  in  a general  “catch- 
my-pal”  movement.  We  should  particularly  fur- 
ther develop  the  working  cooperation  of  all  min- 
isters and  officials  of  the  churches  for  personal 
work  among  the  members  of  our  congregations, 
and  we  should,  as  far  as  practical,  have  mass 
meetings  in  public  halls  with  energetic  advertis- 
ing, so  as  to  extend  our  hearing  to  those  who  do 
not  attend  churches.  It  would  be  advisable  to 
appoint  a committee  of  each  denomination  ta  take 
charge  of  the  extension  of  our  work  in  that  de- 
nomination. The  special  effort  should  be  made 
for  rapid  extension  in  the  Episcopal  Church  and 
Catholic  Church.  Also  among  adult  Sunday 
schools  and  other  church  societies,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
and  Y.  W.  C.  A. 

In  Organizing  we  are  in  a position  to  bring  to- 
gether all  our  forces  as  never  before,  and  the 
time  has  come  to  develop  a Prohibition  clearing 
house,  which,  without  any  new  powers,  would  by 
common  consent  bring  together  and  harmonize 
the  officials  of  all  temperance  and  Prohibition 


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and  moral  forces,  thus  insuring  efficiency  in  all 
Prohibition  enterprises;  supporting  union  meet- 
ings, conducting  educational  campaigns,  political 
campaigns  and  all  other  enterprises  looking 
toward  the  destruction  of  the  liquor  traffic.  The 
national  Prohibition  clearing  house  would  em- 
brace ex  officio  national  officers  of  temperance. 
Prohibition,  church  and  other  national  uplift  or- 
ganizations. This  national  clearing  house  should 
meet  once  a year,  preferably  in  Washington, 
D.  C.,  the  first  week  in  December. 

Clearing  houses  should  be  rapidly  developed  in 
all  congressional  districts  that  are  doubtful,  and 
in  townships,  counties  and  States  where  Prohibi- 
tion fights  are  pending. 

It  would  be  well  to  develop  the  idea  of  enlist- 
ing along  with  the  idea  of  giving  the  natural  sup- 
port, when  pledge  cards  are  distributed, 
v/  In  raising  money  we  should  systematize  our 
appeals  not  only  within  churches  but  particularly 
in  union  meetings  and  great  public  meetings  in 
public  halls. 

In  operation,  we  should  remain  always  on  the  of- 
fensive, attacking  along  the  whole  line.  In  town- 
ship, county,  State  and  nation,  we  should  pro- 
ceed to  wound  the  liquor  traffic  by  statutory 
enactmenl^such  as  Prohibition  in  the  District  of 
Columbia,  denying  liquor  advertising  and  litera- 
ture the  use  of  the  mails  in  Prohibition  territory 
and  then  everywhere,  and  denying  the  liquor 


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traffic  altogether  the  use  of  interstate  commerce 
and  commerce  with  foreign  nations. 

Our  success  will  he  commensurate  with  our 
efforts  in  reaching  the  masses  of  the  people  with 
the  truth  about  alcohol  and  the  awful  tragedy  of 
the  liquor  traffic.  On  account  of  the  intrench- 
ment  of  error  on  the  subject,  we  must  use  the 
power  of  suggestion  and  the  psychological  meth- 
od, gradually  bringing  home  to  the  individual 
mind  the  realization  of  the  truth.  The  rest  will 
follow.  If  our  work  is  effective,  we  will  see  the 
rousing  of  the  deepest  instincts  of  life,  self- 
preservation,  advancement,  protection  of  off- 
spring, preservation  of  nation  and  race,  together 
with  the  highest  forms  of  consecration,  service, 
self-sacrifice,  making  the  strongest  call  to  duty 
that  has  ever  come  to  man.  When  the  heart  is 
thus  aroused,  it  only  remains  necessary  to  show 
the  way,  organize  the  public  will,  and  crystallize 
it  into  national  policy.  No  power  on  earth  can 
stand  in  the  way  of  our  final  success. 

In  the  order  of  nature  if  a family  and  a na- 
tion are  sober  and  total  abstainers,  they  tend  not 
only  to  continue  to  have  a natural  increase,  but 
to  rapidly  rise  and  produce  a noble  race  of  thor- 
oughbred men  and  women.  We  have  thorough- 
bred corn  and  cotton.  We  have  produced  thor- 
oughbred horses  and  dogs;  it  is  time  to  end 
liquor’s  reign  of  degeneracy  and  begin  to  pro- 
duce a thoroughbred  race  of  men. 


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With  reasonable  attention  crops,  flocks,  herds, 
reproduce,  develop,  and  rise  indefinitely  along  the 
line  of  their  evolution,  but  a nation  only  rises  to 
fall.  It  is  only  born  to  die.  Science  has  now- 
revealed  the  astounding  tragedy  that  the  human 
race,  the  crowning  masterpiece  of  creation  for 
long  centuries,  has  been  systematically  poison- 
ed with  the  specific  for  degeneracy,  bringing 
down  upon  its  head  the  curse  of  nature,  disease, 
premature  death,  till  mankind  groans  with 
the  mill-stone  of  degeneracy  swung  from  its 
neck. 

I do  not  underestimate  the  importance  of  pre- 
paredness ; for  nearly  twenty  years  I have 
pleaded  with  my  countrymen  in  season  and  out 
of  season,  in  Congress  and  out  of  Congress,  to 
seriously  consider  this  important  question.  I do 
not  underestimate  the  importance  of  other  issues, 
but  in  the  light  of  these  recent  discoveries  of 
science  we  must  conclude  that  National  Prohibi- 
tion is  the  supreme  issue  of  our  day  and  that 
the  paramount  duty  we  owe,  each  one  of  us,  not 
only  to  our  own  children  and  to  our  o-wn  country, 
but  to  humanity,  to  nature,  and  to  nature’s  God,  is 
that  each  one  of  us  should  do  his  legitimate  part 
so  that  in  the  shortest  length  of  time  our  gener- 
ation may  cut  the  millstone  of  degeneracy  and 
remove  the  curse  of  nature  and  at  last  give  the 
human  species  a chance  to  rise. 

No  one  of  us  through  his  own  neglect  would 


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delay  by  one  day  tbe  coming  peace  in  Europe, 
for  we  remember  the  dead,  the  dying  on  the 
battlefields ; but  those  battlefields  do  not  average  2^ 
two  thousand  killed  a day,  the  average  in  Amer- 
ica slain  by  liquor. 

When  a soldier  falls  in  battle  the  bullet  that 
pierces  his  heart  can  not  reach  his  character,  and 
his  soul  rises  in  the  universe  without  a wound. 
Character  is  the  line  of  human  evolution.  Alco- 
hol’s ravages  are  the  deadliest.  When  an  au- 
topsy is  performed  on  an  alcoholic,  the  victim  of 
acute  alcoholism,  it  is  found  that  the  wonderful 
delicate  gray  matter  in  the  top  part  of  his  brain, 
the  seat  of  his  activities  that  distinguish  him 
from  the  brute  and  link  him  to  God,  has  been 
wiped  out,  and  inert  white  scar  tissue  has  been 
formed  in  its  place.t^he  victim’s  character  has 
rotted  away.  He  has  been  butchered,  soul  as 
well  as  body.  It  is  bad  enough  to  butcher  the 
mortal  body;  who  can  measure  the  tragedy  of 
butchering  any  mortal  soul.  Two  thousand  of 
our  fellow  citizens,  children  of  the  same  father, 
our  brothers,  for  whom  our  Savior  died,  are 
stretched  out  every  day  in  premature  death, 
butchered  in  soul  as  well  as  in  body,  in  order 
that  a few  thousand  citizens  may  continue  to 
enrich  themselves. 

Scores  and  scores  of  thousands  of  little  chil- 
dren are  dying  every  year  from  these  cruel 
wounds,  inflicted  upon  their  helpless,  innocent 


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little  lives  before  they  are  born,  at  the  bands  of 
their  own  parents. 

Our  brothers  must  be  butchered  by  wholesale 
like  cattle,  soul  as  well  as  body,  four-fifths  of  our 
promising  boys  must  be  captured  and  the  whole- 
sale slaughter  of  the  innocents  must  continue  in 
order  that  a few  thousand  brewers,  distillers, 
wholesalers  and  retailers,  may  continue  to  enrich 
themselves.  America  and  the  nations  of  to-day 
must  perish  like  the  nations  of  the  past,  and  the 
human  race  with  its  spark  of  immortality  must 
become  extinct. 

A WOMAN’S  BUSINESS  * 

My  profession,  the  medical  profession,  has  at 
last  gone  out  of  partnership  with  John  Barley- 
corn. The  June,  1916,  edition  of  the  American 
Pharmacopoeia  knocked  the  last  prop  out  from 
under  the  drug-store  blind  tiger;  for  the  drug 
stores,  you  know,  have  been  selling  booze  for 
medicine.  In  the  June  edition,  the  new  edition 
of  the  American  Pharmacopoeia — it  is  a book  in 
which  we  list  every  drug  that  we  dare  to  use  as 
medicine — we  didn’t  list  alcohol  one  time. 
Brandy  is  not  there ; whisky  is  not  in  there ; beer, 
wine,  Hostetter’s  bitters  are  left  squarely  out  of 
the  American  Pharmacopoeia  because  my  profes- 
sion is  ready  to  say  to  the  gentleman  who  pre- 

* From  an  address  by  Dr.  Carolyn  E.  Geisel. 


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ceded  me  that  alcohol  is  not  a medicine,  but  a 
habit-forming  drug. 

What  of  it?  Now  wait  a minute,  you  men; 
listen.  I have  a right  to  talk  to  you  because  you 
are  woman’s  business;  you  belong  to  us.  Yes, 
you;  of  course  you  do.  You  are  our  babies. 
Some  of  you  we  are  ashamed  of,  and  some  of 
you  we  are  proud  of.  You  are  fathers,  and  hus- 
bands, and  lovers,  and  some  others,  but  you  be- 
long to  woman ; you  belong  to  her  as  her  son,  as 
her  husband ; you  are  her  product,  if  you  please. 
Some  of  you  have  turned  out  all  right.  You  have 
turned  out  all  right,  God  bless  you  of  the  Anti- 
Saloon  League. 

Now,  listen  a minute.  I want  to  tell  you  that 
anything  that  gets  in  your  way,  that  thing  is  in 
the  way  of  a woman’s  business.  I am  old- 
fashioned,  desperately  old-fashioned;  I want  you 
to  know  I am  a suffragette.  But  in  spite  of  the 
suffrage,  in  spite  of  the  freedom  that  the  twen- 
tieth century  has  given  my  sex  (and  it  has  given 
us  freedom;  we  women  folks  may  choose  to  prac- 
tise law,  or  medicine;  we  may  do  anything  we 
choose,  and  you  allow  us  to  do  that  under  the 
stars  and  stripes),  I am  just  old-fashioned 
enough  to  hark  away  back  to  all  the  ages  and 
hear  Him,  the  Master  of  all  lands,  calling  us 
women  folk  to  our  business. 

It  is  a woman’s  business  to  raise  men.  Do 
you  know  that  it  takes  two  women  to  raise  one 


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good  man?  Yes,  it  does.  It  takes  Ms  mother 
twenty  straight  years ; that  is  a long  time  to  put 
on  a straight  piece.  If  you  men  had  to  put 
twenty-one  years  on  one  piece  you  would  jump 
your  job.  And  then  she,  the  mother,  turns  that 
unfinished  piece  over  to  another  woman,  Ms  wife. 
Sometimes  it  takes  more  than  one  wife  to  finish 
the  job.  But,  done  rightly,  it’s  worth  it. 

Listen,  while  I read  out  of  God’s  own  word 
His  definition  of  you.  His  definition  of  your  son, 
your  mother.  Listen;  “Made  in  the  image  of 
God;  God  the  Father;  God  the  Son;  God  the 
Holy  Ghost.” 

Woman’s  business  reaches  beyond  the  tomb. 
You  men  folk  are  spending  your  lives — some  of 
you — raising  hogs;  a beautiful  job  you’ve  done. 
Some  of  those  hogs  are  a credit,  but  we  are  not 
raising  live-stock;  we  are  raising  sons  of  God. 

Listen  again:  “Beloved,  now  are  we  the  sons 

of  God,  and  it  doth  not  yet  appear Oh, 

man,  born  of  woman,  that  is  a tremendous  defi- 
nition— son  of  God.  Little  mother  in  this  room, 
did  you  say  you  were  not  a Prohibitionist? 
Hear  me  tell  you  right  now  that  it  is  your  busi- 
ness to  raise  sons  for  God  Almighty.  Your 
business  means  you  are  to  do  everything  in  your 
power  to  raise  that  son  so  that  he  shall  be  a 
great  credit  to  the  great  I AM  in  whose  image 
he  was  made. 

If  you  are  not  a Prohibitionist  now,  at  tMs 
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minute,  you  should  become  one  out  and  out  for 
the  sake  of  your  business.  God  gave  us  the  busi- 
ness of  man-raising.  It  doesn’t  matter  what 
else  we  go  into.  You  are  our  first  business.  It 
is  an  awful  job  to  raise  a man.  One  baby  out 
of  every  two  dies  before  it  matures.  A woman 
goes  almost  to  the  door  of  her  death  to  bring 
back  a man  child;  she  literally  raps  at  the  door 
of  her  own  grave  to  give  him  life,  and  for  one 
rapturous,  transcendent  minute  she  holds  him  to 
her  heart  and  then  slips  him  back  in  his  grave. 
Mothers’  hearts  ache  to  breaking  for  the  babies 
that  are  not. 

Well,  we  have  just  one  left  out  of  every  two, 
and  out  of  that  one-half  of  our  offspring  we 
must  make  all  the  great  men  in  the  world.  We 
must  make  the  doctors  and  the  lawyers ; we  must 
make  the  judges  and  the  farmers — God  bless 
them;  and  we  must  make  that  splendid  body  of 
sons  of  God  standing  behind  the  desk;  we  must 
make  the  governors  for  States  which  must  an- 
swer the  call  of  dear  old  Union  when  she  wants 
a president.  We  must  make  men  fit  for  the  pres- 
idency. Well,  do  we  do  it?  We  are  making  some 
great  men.  But,  in  addition  to  the  good  men 
whom  we  turn  out  from  the  American  home,  we 
are  making  a tremendous  lot  of  human  junk,  just 
junk.  I speak  as  a physician  on  the  authority  of 
the  great  race  betterment  convention. 

It  is  sad  that  in  the  big,  wide  world  the  home 


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has  turned  out  500  per  cent,  more  feeble-minded 
children  in  the  last  fifty  years  than  it  ever  did 
before.  That  isn’t  all.  Listen  this  time  with  the 
ear  of  your  heart;  listen  to  the  clang!  clang! 
clang!  of  the  ball  and  chain  from  the  ankles  of 
240,000  of  our  sons;  240,000  criminals  in  the 
United  States  of  America.  I speak  for  myself, 
the  women  of  the  world.  We  bore  them,  if 
you  please.  Lord  Shaftsbury  says  one  out 
of  every  two  of  the  insane  folks  are  insane 
because  of  alcohol  in  first,  second,  third  gener- 
ation. The  criminology  of  this  America  of  ours 
Lells  us  definitely  that  sixty-two  out  of  every  one 
hundred  of  our  sons  who  are  behind  prison  bars 
are  there  on  account  of  alcohol  only.  Oh,  men, 
if  I were  raising  stock,  if  I were  in  the  chicken 
business,  if  I were  raising  hogs,  you  would  hear 
me  this  afternoon  while  I plead  for  the  putting 
out  from  the  United  States  of  America  a poison 
that  would  destroy  hogs  or  hens.  Aye,  but  I am 
pleading  for  a bigger  thing  than  hogs.  Straight 
from  the  hand  of  God  motherhood  was  called  to 
her  business,  and  I am  begging  you,  our  sons, 
our  brothers,  our  husbands,  our  lovers,  to  do  and 
to  do  to  a finish  this  job  you  have  undertaken, 
for  we  can  not  bear  it  any  longer  to  go  down 
there  to  the  door  of  death  and  bring  back  men, 
and  then  to  give  you  junk  instead  of  men. 

Can’t  you  see  it?  If  you  can  see  it,  then  I 
pray  you,  in  the  name  of  home,  to  go  out  from 


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this  convention  and  work  as  you  have  never 
worked  before.  You  are  too  slow.  You  sit  here 
in  this  convention  and  felicitate  each  other.  You 
say  Prohibition  is  coming.  Aye,  and  I came  away 
from  my  office,  as  I did  just  yesterday,  to  meet  this 
convention,  and  I left  a mother  there,  wringing 
her  hands  over  the  death  of  an  idiot  baby.  I 
didn’t  wring  my  hands;  I said,  ‘‘Thank  the 
Lord  God  Almighty  that  he  no  longer  breathes.” 
When  I saw  that  broken  home,  I said,  “I  will 
go  to  that  convention  and  I will  make  those  men 
understand,  God  helping  me,  that  they  move  too 
slow!”  That  baby  was  born  since  the  Anti- 
Saloon  League  was  born,  and  it  shouldn’t  have 
been  born  curst  with  its  father’s  sin.  Every 
three  minutes  one  man  staggers  into  a drunk- 
ard’s grave!  If  there  was  a poison  flowing 
through  the  hog  meadows  that  killed  one  hog 
every  three  minutes,  you  men  would  get  a mov 
on.  One  son  of  a mother  goes  to  a drunkard’s 
grave  every  three  minutes. 


Sixty  out  of  every  hundred  cases  of  Bright 
disease  are  caused  by  alcohol!  The  race  better- 
ment convention  of  the  United  States  of  America 
said  that.  Now,  listen;  you  ought  to  live  one 
hundred  and  twenty  years;  did  you  know  it? 
Every  animal  that  lives  to  grow  up  should  live 
six  times  as  long  as  it  took  to  grow  up.  There- 
fore, you  are  entitled  to  one  hundred  and  twenty 
years  of  life,  and  then  you  should  go  to  pieces  all 


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at  once;  but  you  don’t  do  it  that  way.  You  go 
limping  around,  dead  in  spots — dead  kidneys, 
dead  stomachs,  dead  eyes.  In  the  year  1914  in 
the  United  States  of  America  we  lost  56,000  more 
middle-aged  men  than  ever  before.  Have  you 
ever  reflected,  it  is  the  middle-aged  man  that  is 
worth  while?  They  don’t  want  a doctor  out  of 
college;  I can  speak  feelingly  on  that  subject. 
What  I knew  when  I got  out  of  college  is  only 
equaled  now  by  what  I know  I don’t  know.  You 
want  a lawyer  with  an  education,  experience 
added  to  education.  We  lost  56,000  more  of  them 
in  the  year  1914  than  ever  before,  and  they  died 
of  four  diseases  (1)  Bright’s  disease.  What 
causes  Bright’s  disease?  Sixty  per  cent,  of 
Bright’s  disease  is  caused  by  alcohol.  (2)  They 
^ed  of  arterio-sclerosis — ^hardening  of  the  ar- 
teries. The  little  white  blood-cells  put  out  of 
commission  by  moderate  drinking.  (3)  They 
died  of  heart  disease.  Nobody  yet  has  estimated 
what  percentages  of  persons  died  of  heart  disease 
due  to  alcohol,  but  it  is  my  personal  opinion  that 
60  per  cent,  of  the  deaths  by  heart  disease  are 
caused  by  alcohol,  due  to  moderate  use.  Then 
come  over  across  the  sea  and  study,  as  I did,  in 
St.  Petersburg,  Eussia,  and  know  that  (4)  can- 
cer of  the  stomach  has  increased  500  per  cent,  in 
the  past  few  years.  Eighty-two  cases  out  of  every 
one  hundred  of  cancer  of  the  stomach  are  pro- 
duced by  moderate  drinking. 


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I am  still  reminding  you  that  it  is  a woman’s 
business  to  raise  a man,  and  it  is  a woman’s 
business  to  raise  a man  not  dead  in  spots.  Now, 
then,  you  say,  “If  all  these  things  are  true”  (I 
fancy  you  are  answering),  “if  alcohol  in  moderate 
doses  injures  a man’s  eye-sight,  his  brain,  his 
efficiency,  and  all  that,  why  don’t  you  educate 
the  people  and  they  will  leave  it  alone?”  They 
will  not  do  it.  You  give  us  Prohibition,  and 
after  you  prohibit  the  stuff  we  will  tell  them 
what  it  did  to  them,  and  they  will  believe  it;  but 
as  long  as  they  can  get  it  they  say,  “It  may 
hurt  the  other  fellow,  but  it  won’t  hurt  us.” 
So  we  have  got  to  have  nothing  but  nation- 
wide Prohibition  to  protect  us  in  this  great  mat- 
ter. 

Oh,  men,  I wish  I could  get  right  into  your 
hearts.  I wish  I could  make  you  feel  this  as  I 
do.  I wish  I could  make  you  know  that  you  have 
protected  every  other  business  in  the  world  but 
our  business;  you  have  protected  every  creature 
in  the  world  but  the  mother.  The  trout  in  the 
stream — no  matter  how  much  you  want  trout— at 
certain  seasons  of  the  year  you  can’t  have.  You 
put  up  your  hook  and  line.  You  can’t  fish  for 
trout  now,  they  say,  because  the  babies  are  com- 
ing. Do  you  see  the  birds  in  the  tree-tops  sing 
and  swing  there  because  you  protected  the  bird 
when  it  was  about  to  be  a mother?  You  pro- 
tected her  in  the  business  of  motherhood.  You 


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protect  the  wild  beasts  in  the  jnngle.  Yon  can’t 
even  shoot  a bull  moose  out  of  searson. 

You  protect  every  business  but  ours,  and  fail- 
ing to  protect  our  business  you  have  jeopardized 
the  United  States  of  America,  for  you  can’t  make 
a country  great  with  great  hogs ; you  can’t  make 
a country  great  with  great  mines;  you  can’t 
make  the  great  West  with  great  minerals,  nor 
with  great  business  of  any  kind  except  the  busi- 
ness of  home-making  and  motherhood,  the  busi- 
ness of  man-making.  When  from  the  American 
home  there  goes  forth  the  sound,  strong,  clean-cut, 
finished  man,  we  shall  have  a nation  that  can 
defend  the  world,  a nation  that  will  take  her 
place,  the  glory  place  that  we  talk  about. 

Ninety  thousand  babies  are  born  blind  in  the 
United  States  as  a by-product  of  this  miserable 
traffic,  the  only  excuse  for  which  is  to  get  rev- 
enue. Hear  the  baby  calling.  It  has  no  language 
but  a cry;  the  most  helpless  thing  on  the  face  of 
the  earth;  it  can’t  balance  itself  on  its  queer, 
dear,  little  dimpled  feet.  Hear  that  baby  calling 
to  you,  Mr.  Voter.  You  are  the  only  power  that 
is  known  in  the  United  States  except  the  power 
of  God.  You  have  power  to  put  out  of  the 
baby’s  way  the  thing  that  hurts  it  so.  Then  an- 
swer the  baby’s  call,  you  men  of  the  Anti-Saloon 
League,  and  make  America  dry  quick  for  the  sake 
of  the  baby. 

Then,  listen  again.  Think  of  the  little  mother 


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who  bore  you,  and  while  you  think  of  her,  think 
of  the  six  millions  of  us  who  work  day  and  night 
in  the  mills,  who  work  in  the  factories,  trying  to 
earn  daily  bread  and  at  the  same  time  raise  sons 
for  Old  Glory. 

Look  at  the  flag,  and  listen  to  the  tramp  of 
soldier  boys’  feet.  Look  at  those  red  stripes 
there,  red  with  the  best  blood  that  ever  flowed 
through  human  veins.  Your  sires  and  mine  put 
that  in  the  flag,  and  it  is  the  color  of  their  blood, 
for  they  shed  it  for  liberty.  Look  at  the  white 
stripes,  white  with  the  virtue  of  motherhood,  the 
holy  purity  of  womanhood ; look  at  the  old  banner 
up  there;  see  the  glory  stars  set  in  the  blue  of 
God’s  eternal  truth;  then  listen,  listen  to  our  boys 
as  they  sing,  ‘ ‘ The  flag  never  touched  the  ground  V 
once,  the  old  flag  never  yet  was  down.”  Hear 
me,  while  I say  to  you  that  as  long  as  God  gives 
motherhood  to  America,  that  long  will  mothers 
say  to  their  sons,  “Be  true;  hold  up  the  old 
flag,”  and  that  long  will  our  sons  answer  the 
call  and  hold  up  Old  Glory  where  she  belongs. 

She  never  did  touch  the  ground;  she  never 
shall  touch  the  ground'.  Now  wait  a minute. 
Can  you  hold  her  up  in  the  hands  of  idiots?  Can 
you  hold  her  up  in  the  hands  of  lunatics?  No. 
Can  she  be  held  in  her  place  of  power  if  she  is 
held  in  the  hands  of  criminals?  No.  Can  she 
be  held  up  there  in  the  hands  of  drunkards?  No. 

It  takes  real  men,  and  nothing  but  real  men,  to 


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keep  the  old  banner  where  she  belongs.  Then 
give  us  men  in  the  name  of  the  home;  aye,  give 
us  men  in  the  name  of  God.  Greece  is  gone ; look 
at  Eome.  She  ruled  the  world  for  five  hundred 
years.  She  was  dry  territory.  Then  she  began 
dispensing  red  liquor  to  her  sons,  and  her  sons 
became  junk,  and  dragged  the  country  down ; for 
you  can  only  make  a nation  great  with  men. 
With  the  decline  of  the  manhood  of  the  nation 
came  the  decline  of  the  nation,  and  the  Dark 
Ages  began. 

Go  past  the  sixteenth,  the  seventeenth,  the 
eighteenth,  the  nineteenth,  to  the  wonders  of  the 
twentieth  century.  Then,  like  a bolt  out  of  the  blue 
came  the  thunders  of  war.  Hear  me;  the  rivers 
run  red  with  the  world’s  best.  Great  sires  are 
being  shot  to  death,  and  shortly  the  old  world 
will  have  no  great  sires  and  great  sons.  You 
can’t  have  great  sons  without  great  sires.  Now, 
Aonerica,  will  you  let  Russia  do  better  than  you 
can  dof  Will  you  let  France  lead  youf  Will 
you  hear  the  noble  king  of  England  as  he  turns 
his  glass  down  and  declares  for  Prohibition,  for 
total  abstinence,  and  will  you  still  think  that 
you  dare  go  on  with  drink?  I ask  you  in  the 
name  of  all  nations  to  quickly,  quickly  give  us 
nation-wide  Prohibition  here  in  America.  Go  out 
of  this  convention  with  your  head  bowed  and 
your  soul  hushed;  look,  if  you  will,  at  the  baby; 
listen  to  the  mother’s  call,  and  the  call  of  the 


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flag,  and  go  out  of  this  convention  praying  that 
prayer  that  Kipling  taught  us;  pray  it  as  you 
never  prayed  before:  “Lord,  God  of  hosts,  be 
with  us  yet,  lest  we  forget,  lest  we  forget” — lest 
we  forget  a baby  in  its  helplessness ; lest  we  for- 
get a mother  in  her  pain;  lest  we  forget  Old 
Glory  in  her  need  of  men ; lest  we  forget  a dying 
world  as  she  calls  for  help ; lest  we  forget  Christ 
on  Calvary.  Lord,  God  of  hosts,  be  with  my 
America  now,  for  it  seems  to  me  we  have  for- 
gotten ! 


A WOMAN’S  SACRIFICE  * 

In  1868  I was  ten  years  of  age.  My  father 
was  a United  States  Senator  from  the  State  of 
Illinois,  having  been  elected  in  1865  at  the  ex- 
piration of  his  term  of  office  as  governor  of  that 
State.  One  day  in  1868  this  father  of  mine  wrote 
a letter  to  my  mother,  and  I am  going  to  quote 
it  to  you,  and  I quote  it  without  shame.  He  was 
horn  in  Kentucky;  his  father  was  born  in  Vir- 
ginia; and  his  father,  my  grandfather,  rode 
through  the  old  Cumberland  Gap,  head  up,  eye 
alight,  sword  aloft,  afraid  of  neither  God,  man, 
nor  devil — yes,  afraid  of  God,  that  was  all — with 
his  young  bride  behind  him,  one  hundred  and 
thirty  years  ago  next  Saturday,  when  Kentucky 
was  a dark  country. 

* From  an  address  by  Former  Governor  Eichard  Yates,  of  Illinois. 

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This  old  father  of  mine  wasn’t  afraid  of 
anything  that  walked  on  two  legs;  not  a bit 
of  it,  but  this  was  the  letter  he  wrote  my 
mother ; 

“Dear  Kate:  The  impeachment  trial  of  the 
President,  Andrew  Johnson,  is  coming  off,  and 
it  will  last  a hundred  days  in  the  awful  heat  of 
Washington,  Now,  you  know  my  weakness.” 
(He  was  a Kentucky  man;  they  drank  good 
whisky  in  those  days,  but  they  drank  it,  and  I 
have  heard  the  ministers  of  the  gospel  weren’t 
above  taking  a little  tonic  sixty  years  ago.) 
“And  my  enemies  will  unhorse  me,  Kate,  and 
keep  me  from  my  seat  in  the  United  States  Sen- 
ate if  they  can;  but  I think  if  you  will  come  on 
and  sit  every  day  in  the  north  Senate  gallery 
that  I can  endure.  P.  8.  Bring  the  boy.”  (I 
was  the  boy.) 

She  was  just  like  a little  faded  flower  that 
would  fold  up  and  fly  away,  and  she  never  had 
a well  day  afterward  in  all  her  life,  but  she 
struck  for  Washington  as  fast  as  steam  and 
train  could  take  her,  and  every  day  when  she 
would  come  in  and  sit  in  the  north  Senate  gallery 
he  would  take  out  his  handkerchief  and  wave  it 
to  her.  “Thank  Grod,  Kate,  I’m  still  here.”  And 
there  she  sat,  a little  figure  in  black,  a hundred 
days  during  that  mighty  impeachment  trial,  and 
I just  want  to  say  this : He  was  a mighty  Sena- 
tor of  the  United  States,  and  that  mighty  Sena- 


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tor  was  helped  to  his  mighty  duty  by  a little 
woman  in  black  in  the  north  gallery. 

Whenever  I go  to  Washington,  I go  up  in  that 
north  Senate  gallery  and  sit  down  where  she  sat 
down.  Do  you  think  I owe  anything  to  the 
American  saloon?  Do  you  think  I owe  anything 
to  alcohol?  I’ll  tell  you;  had  it  not  been  for  al- 
cohol that  mighty  sacrifice  would  not  have  been 
necessary. 

THE  SALOON  AND  DEMOCRACY  * 

Thebe  is  no  need  of  my  telling  you  that  the 
most  outstanding  social  fact,  taking  the  world  over 
to-day  the  most  outstanding  social  fact — I mean 
in  the  broad  aspect — is  that  movement  toward 
increasing  social  control  which  we  call  the  mod- 
ern democratic  movement.  We  do  not  need  to 
be  told  of  its  triumphs  in  this  country.  WTiile  the 
world-wide  triumphs  may  be  hindered  somewhat 
by  the  progress  of  the  terrible  wars  to  which  the 
nations  have  come,  nevertheless  the  normal 
movement  in  the  nations  beyond  the  sea  is  the 
movement  toward  increasing  social  control,  and 
this  movement  is  taking  place  practically  every- 
where. Even  in  some  lands  that  we  have  been 
accustomed  to  think  of  as  unreached  by  the  modern 
influence  of  Christendom;  lands  far  beyond  the 
seas,  in  other  parts  of  the  world. 

* From  an  address  by  Bishop  Francis  McConnell,  of  Denver, 
Colorado. 


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The  movement  finds  expression  not  only  in 
political  life;  it  finds  expression  in  industrial 
life,  in  ecclesiastical  life,  in  educational  life, 
everywhere.  While  the  forms  of  expression  of 
the  movement  change,  and  while  the  measures  of 
one  generation  are  not  precisely  the  same  as  the 
measures  of  the  other  generations,  yet  the  masses 
of  the  people  are  coming  more  and  more  to  take 
control  in  their  own  name,  and  for  themselves  to 
speak  in  the  larger  interests  of  humanity. 

Now  the  question  I wish  to  discuss  is  this.  Is 
there  any  way  that  you  can  place  the  saloon  as 
an  institution  in  the  modern  democratic  move- 
ment? I do  not  think  there  is.  Government  in 
these  days,  if  it  is  to  be  a government  of  democ- 
racy at  all,  is  a government  by  discussion,  and 
the  first  point  I wish  to  make  is  this:  that  the 
saloon,  as  an  institution,  always  makes  a poor 
candidate  simply  because  it  can  not  bring  its 
reasons  out  into  the  light.  You  never  yet  have 
seen  or  heard  a respectable  speech,  an  intellec- 
tually respectable  speech,  made  in  behalf  of  the 
saloon,  and  we  can’t  have  democracy  if  we  can’t 
have  discussion  of  the  kind  that  pulls  all  there  is 
to  be  known  about  an  issue  out  into  the  light; 
and  the  minute  you  pull  all  that  is  to  be 
known  about  the  saloon  into  the  light,  that  mo- 
ment the  saloon  is  doomed,  and  everybody 
knows  it. 

First  of  all,  you  simply  can  not  make  a decent 


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or  respectable  discussion  in  its  behalf.  One  peril 
to  democracy  is  the  existence  of  causes  that  you 
must  simply  jam  through.  You  must  keep  your 
mouth  shut  and  jam  them  through  if  you  are 
going  to  get  votes  at  all,  and  that  must  always 
be  the  policy  of  a saloon  in  a democracy,  and 
that  policy  is  distinctly  anti-social  and  undemo- 
cratic. 

Democracy  is  on  trial  for  its  very  life,  and  if 
democracy  is  to  succeed  or  fail,  it  must  succeed 
or  fail  partly  by  its  success  or  failure  in  answer- 
ing this  question — Does  it  give  itself  to  the  ad- 
vocation, aye,  and  the  enforcement  of  causes  that 
can  be  discust  in  the  full  light  of  publicity? 

When  has  anybody  ever  heard  a campaign  in 
behalf  of  the  saloon  that  was  intellectually  re- 
spectable? You  simply  can  not  discuss  the  saloon 
and  do  it  with  any  measure  of  self-respect;  if 
you  have  either  a sense  of  respect  or  adequate 
sense  of  humor,  it  is  simply  absurd.  Take  two 
arguments  used  at  every  attempt  at  discussion. 
The  first  is  that  old,  old  argument  in  behalf  of 
personal,  individual  liberty.  We  must  have  the 
saloon  business  because  that  makes  a test  of  lib- 
erty ; we  must  be  free  to  use  it  or  not,  and  I have 
heard  that  argument  drest  up  and  put  upon 
the  pages  of  the  very  respectable  monthly  maga- 
zines in  our  country.  You  won’t  stand  for  that 
argument  for  one  minute  in  any  other  connec- 
tion. If  you  drink  typhoid  germs,  and  your  body 


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becomes  resistent,  are  you  going  to  allow  them 
to  exist  in  the  water  systems  simply  because  it 
may  make  a few  people  immune  to  typhoid! 
Hardly.  We  are  thinking  of  the  great  mass  of 
common  people,  and  the  great  importance  of  the 
common  good,  and  that  is  what  democracy  al- 
ways is  thinking  about  and  always  must  think 
about.  We  have  passed  away  from  the  old  per- 
sonal, individualistic  democracy,  and  it  never  will 
return. 

The  kind  of  democracy  into  which  we  are 
entering  is  one  that  lays  more  stress  on  the  so- 
cial value.  In  the  old  days  of  the  frontier,  if  a 
man  didn’t  like  his  neighbors,  he  could  move  on, 
and  could  do  with  himself  just  as  he  pleased.  If  a 
man  wanted  to  get  drunk,  in  those  days,  he  could 
lie  around  and  become  sober;  but  we  have  passed 
over,  with  the  passing  away  of  the  free  land, 
from  that  age  to  a more  social  form  of  democ- 
racy, and  in  these  days  we  can’t  get  away  from 
the  neighbor,  and  it  becomes  a matter  of  conse- 
quence to  us  what  the  neighbor  does,  and  we 
have  to  make  shift  to  get  along  with  him;  and 
therefore  we  insist  he  must  live  up  to  certain 
requirements.  He  must  not  poison  the  well  of 
common  life,  and  he  can  say  what  he  pleases 
about  personal  liberty,  but  in  these  days,  and  the 
days  to  come,  we  are  taking  more  and  more  lib- 
erty with  the  doctrine  of  personal  liberty  itself. 
It  must  be  modified  into  harmony  with  the  ideas 


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of  the  large  social  conscience.  Oh,  we  say,  let 
every  man  go  to  the  devil  in  his  own  way.  Some 
people  say  that  a man  has  a right  to  go  to  the 
devil.  Well,  if  he  could  go  off  on  Crusoe’s  Is- 
land and  go  to  the  devil,  there  might  be  some- 
thing said  for  it;  but  a man  can’t  go  to  the  devil 
in  the  sight  of  my  children  in  his  own  way  or 
anybody  else’s  way.  There  is  a limit  to  personal 
liberty.  We  have  to  insist  in  the  name  of  society 
that  some  things  simply  can  not  stand. 

Take  the  other  argument:  The  inefficiency  of 
Prohibition.  Somebody  says  it  doesn’t  prohibit. 

I don’t  suppose  that  any  prohibitory  law  enacted 
from  the  beginning  of  time  ever  has  absolutely  ^ 
prohibited;  but  we  don’t  think  of  doing  away 
with  the  other  prohibitions.  The  ten  command- 
ments have  been  prohibitive,  but  never  actually 
enforced.  Men  will  come  and  say  to  us,  as  some- 
times saloon  men  say,  “Why,  if  you  have  Pro- 
hibition, an  anti-saloon  enactment,  we  will  sell 
just  as  much  liquor,  even  more.”  In  dealing 
with  the  saloon  I find  out  first  what  the  saloon 
doesn’t  want,  and  then  move  along  that  line.  If 
the  saloon  really  could  sell  more  liquor  under 
Prohibition  law,  they  would  be  clamoring  for 
Prohibition.  They  have  no  large  public  interest 
about  that  matter.  They  are  moved  by  their 
own  interest.  But  you  can’t  tell  me  that  when  a 
prohibitive  law  is  made  in  any  measure  effective 
it  doesn’t  interfere  with  the  sale  of  liquor,  be- 


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cause  it  does,  A man  said  to  me  in  Indianapolis 
some  time  ago:  “You  have  Prohibition  in  a cer- 
tain county  in  Indiana;  I can  go  down  there  and 
in  fifteen  minutes  get  a drink.”  Well,  say  fifteen 
minutes  to  get  a drink;  before  we  had  the  Pro- 
hibition law  there  you  could  get  it  in  a half 
minute.  If  you  enacted  a law  that  made  it  im- 
possible to  find  the  baker  shop  short  of  fifteen 
minutes’  hunting,  it  would  cut  down  the  sale  of 
bread.  We  make  no  claims  for  the  best  show 
windows  and  best  corners  on  the  streets,  and  say 
they  must  always  have  the  best  place  to  get  their 
goods  before  the  public  eye.  We  see  how  absurd 
that  is.  Suppose  I went  into  the  bread  business 
and  I had  to  go  round  an  alley  and  give  a cer- 
tain kind  of  password,  a rap  on  the  door  in  the 
dark,  before  I could  get  a loaf  of  bread — would 
that  help  the  bread  business? 

Now  you  see  I am  simply  bringing  that  for- 
ward to  show  that  the  whole  movement,  the  dis- 
cussion, I mean,  in  the  face  of  common  sense,  is 
absurd.  If  society  desires  in  these  cases  to  enact 
a Prohibition  law,  it  can  enact  it.  And,  after 
all,  the  only  inherent  right  in  the  whole  matter 
is  the  right  of  society  to  protect  itself,  and  any 
other  kind  of  right  can  be  ridden  over,  if  neces- 
sary, in  the  name  of  a large  movement  toward 
democracy. 

In  the  first  place,  then,  I say  that  in  a modern 
democracy  the  saloon  makes  a poor  candidate  for 


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the  suffrages  of  the  people  because  it  can  not  be 
discust.  It  must  be  put  through  irrespective  of 
the  reasons.  It  must  be  put  through  whether  or 
no,  and  that  is  a harmful  element  in  any  democ- 
racy. 

In  the  next  place,  the  saloon  is  a poor  insti- 
tution because  when  it  wins  it  is  a very  poor 
winner.  If  an  institution  will  win  in  a modern 
democracy  it  must  accept  this  for  its  platform 
and  program:  It  is  a trustee,  acting  in  the  name 
of  a common  good.  Can  you  get  any  name  act- 
ing on  the  common  good?  The  only  good  they 
will  act  in  favor  of  is  the  good  of  their  particu- 
lar interest. 

We  have  to  combine  power  with  responsibility. 
We  give  certain  institutions  great  power  and 
hold  them  strictly  responsible.  Will  the  saloons 
accept  responsibility  in  any  trusteeship?  They 
will  not.  At  least,  they  haven’t  done  so  up  to 
date.  When  you  talk  about  predatory  wealth  in 
this  country,  and  I think  there  is  a good  deal  to 
be  said  against  it,  and  on  another  occasion  I may 
say  some  things  myself,  if  you  take  a legitimate 
institution  like  a railroad  you  can  bring  the 
board  of  directors  to  a sense  of  responsibility; 
to  a sense  of  adequate  trusteeship.  You  can  take 
any  great  interest  of  industry  or  transportation 
and  you  can  bring  them  to  accept  public  control 
because  they  are  public  trustees,  having  in  mind 
the  great  interest  of  the  common  people  because 


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there  is  a way  they  can  save  the  people,  and  they 
can  be  brought  to  see  that  point  of  view. 

Can  yon  bring  any  organization  of  brewers  or 
distillers  to  any  sense  of  trusteeship?  Can  yon 
appeal  to  them  on  the  basis  of  the  common 
good?  No,  you  can  not;  and  that  primarily  for 
the  reason  that  they  are  not  in  business  for  the 
public  good.  They  are  in  business  in  a selfish 
sense,  and  if  there  is  any  reason  in  the  attack 
on  predatory  wealth  there  is  all  the  more  reason 
for  attack  on  predatory  wealth  that  simply 
thinks  of  its  own  welfare  always  and  has  no  way 
of  making  that  welfare  coincident  with  the  pub- 
lic. 

If  I were  running  a saloon,  what  would  be  my 
object?  I suppose  the  object  of  everybody  else 
running  the  liquor  traffic ; first,  to  sell  more 
liquor;  get  the  same  persons  that  are  now  drink- 
ing the  liquor  to  drink  more.  In  the  second 
place,  to  get  more  persons  to  drink  liquor,  and 
the  great  place  to  get  them  is  to  take  the  rising 
generation  as  they  come  on.  Is  that  guarding 
public  health  and  public  good?  I can  go  to 
heathen  countries  and  sell  there,  but  those  two 
motives  have  to  be  my  motives — to  sell  more 
liquor  to  the  same  persons  now  drinking,  or  find 
other  persons  to  drink  the  liquor  in  larger  quan- 
tities. 

You  can  not  put  the  saloon  into  power  and 
separate  it  from  those  principles.  It  is  for  the 


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advantage  of  the  country  that  the  people  buy 
more  transportation  and  more  clothing,  and  buy 
more  fuel,  and  those  businesses  can  be  pushed 
ahead  on  the  basis  of  the  common  good.  You 
can  not  push  the  liquor  business  ahead  on  the 
basis  of  any  common  good  in  the  modem  democ- 
racy. It  is  a poor  winner  and  ought  to  go 
down. 

In  the  next  place  the  saloon  is  not  only  a poor 
candidate  and  poor  winner,  when  it  wins,  but  it 
is  a poor  loser  when  it  loses.  I have  happened 
to  have  something  to  do  in  Mexico  in  my  relation 
with  the  Methodist  Church,  and  one  reason  you 
can  not  have  democracy  in  Mexico  is  simply  be- 
cause the  Mexicans  are  poor  losers.  Any  man 
that  is  out-voted  goes  out  in  active  protest,  takes 
a gun,  and  gathers  a body  of  men  around  him. 
Now  I don’t  think  that  is  necessary  in  Mexico, 
and  I am  absolutely  pro-Mexico  in  a great  many 
ways  because  of  my  relation  to  fine  people  that 
I know  down  there ; but  if  you  think  we  are  to  con- 
demn Mexico  it  is  because  it  is  a poor  loser. 

You  take  an  institution  with  branches  all  over 
the  country  and  condemn  that  because  it  is  a 
poor  loser.  They  break  the  law  any  way  they 
can,  and  there  is  no  way  you  can  modify  this 
statement,  I think,  in  so  far  as  the  high  moral 
point  of  view  is  concerned.  There  is  no  way  of 
taking  any  other  stand  to  a saloon  because  it  is 
this  when  it  loses — it  is  essentially  an  outlaw. 


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It  tries  to  get  away  from  Prohibition  in  any 
way  conceivable,  in  any  way  possible.  By  hiring 
lawyers  to  find  a way  around  the  law,  by  hiring 
officials  that  can  be  corrupted;  it  is  the  worst 
loser  of  all  the  institutions  on  earth.  Now  if  we 
are  going  to  have  a democracy,  and  we  are  going 
to  have  liquor  standing  up  claiming  the  votes  of 
democracy,  if  we  are  going  to  put  things  into 
power  in  the  name  of  increasing  social  control, 
we  have  to  learn,  all  of  us,  to  be  poor  losers ; we 
have  to  adjust  ourselves  and  work  in  legitimate 
ways  for  the  days  when  we  can  triumph.  Not  by 
breaking  laws  or  buying  legislators,  not  by  cor- 
rupting courts  and  hiring  lawyers  to  find  ways 
around  the  clear  intent  of  the  law.  I say,  the 
saloon  is  the  poor  loser. 

What  is  the  problem  of  modern  democracy? 
It  is  to  take  a great  mass  and  work  it  over  into 
an  organization,  into  a body.  We  haven’t  gotten 
beyond  St.  Paul’s  statement  yet  that  we  are  to 
become  a body  in  Christ.  That  means  coordina- 
tion and  adaptation  of  part  to  part. 

Democracy  is  not  a great  steam-roller  aggre- 
gate. It  is  something  to  be  coordinated  together 
and  made  into  an  organism.  How  does  the  saloon 
fit  into  that?  Does  it  make  for  coordination?  A 
man  drinks  and  sends  fiery  liquor  to  his  brain 
and  staggers,  becomes  dizzy,  stutters  and  stum- 
bles in  his  speech,  and  let  a social  organism  like 
ours  tolerate  in  its  midst  a saloon?  That  is  anti- 


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democracy  and  anti-social,  and  unrighteous,  and 
so  far  as  the  large  message  of  the  civilization 
of  it,  that  point  or  particular  organism  is  con- 
cerned, they  stagger  and  speak  in  uncertain 
tones. 

Here  we  stand  out  as  a great  nation  of  liberty. 
We  tolerate  an  institution  that  makes  drink 
against  liberty.  That  is  what  I mean  by  a social 
organism  staggering  and  stuttering  as  a drunken 
man.  We  must  walk  clearly,  with  clear  speech; 
we  must  have  brain  that  thinks  clearly.  I mean 
the  whole  social  organism,  and  the  quickest  way, 
it  seems  to  me,  to  bring  us  to  that  clear-minded 
and  open-eyed  and  direct  utterance  is  to  simply 
do  away  with  those  evils  that  move  directly 
against  the  large  interests  of  the  people. 

How  can  we  improve  the  saloon  to  fit  it  into 
modern  democracy?  I think  I know.  Years  ago, 
long  before  any  present  crises  arose — I am  not 
talking  about  a present  crisis  at  all,  hut  in  the 
days  of  the  near  eastern  question  as  it  is  called 
— a number  of  statesmen  were  discussing  to- 
gether how  to  improve  the  Turkish  system  of 
administration,  and  the  Turkish  empire — not  the 
individual,  hut  the  institution — and  they  discust 
and  discust,  and  discust.  One  wise  man  finally 
said  the  only  way  to  improve  it  is  to  im- 
prove it  off  the  face  of  the  earth.  And  it  is  the 
only  way  I can  see  that  we  can  handle  this  very 
grave  evil. 


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We  talk  about  tke  influence  of  money  power  in 
politics.  This  is  corrupt  money  and  works  in  the 
line  of  corruption.  The  only  way  I can  see  that 
we  can  improve  the  saloon  in  dealing  with  the 
modern  improvement  is  simply  to  improve  it  off 
the  face  of  the  earth. 

THE  HOW  AND  WHEN  * 

We  hear  much  from  liquor  sources  about  the 
“legitimate  dealers”  and  “honorable  brewers 
and  distillers.”  There  are  none.  The  lid-lifting 
spectacle  at  Glirard,  Ala.,  in  a dry  state,  where 
the  authorities  uncovered  more  than  a million 
dollars’  worth  (estimated  values)  of  liquors, 
stored  away  to  be  peddled  out  in  defiance  of  law 
from  automobiles  and  otherwise,  much  of  which 
came  from  Louisville,  the  home  of  that  sweet- 
scented  shrub  known  as  the  Model  License 
League,  is  the  answer  to  the  silly  twaddle  of  one 
Thomas  Gilmore,  who  pleads  guilty  to  being  the 
owner  and  abettor  of  that  crime-breeding  insti- 
tution. 

There  is  no  virtue  it  has  not  outraged  and  no 
crime  it  has  not  committed  in  the  futile  effort  at 
self-defense.  To-day  it  stands  stript  of  com- 
mercial value,  of  moral  worth,  of  legal  standing, 
of  scientific  sanction.  It  is  utterly  impoverished, 
but,  like  the  criminal  vagrant,  it  pleads  for  a 

* From  an  address  by  Dr,  P.  A.  Baker,  of  Westerville,  Ohio. 

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few  days  more  of  life.  But  everything  in  the 
world  that  is  of  good  report  is  against  it,  and  it 
must  die. 

How  shall  the  execution  be  conducted?  There 
are  but  two  methods  suggested.  One  is  the  par- 
tizan  method  and  the  other  is  the  non-partizan, 
or  omni-partizan.  Moral  suasion,  commercial 
efficiency,  and  scientific  findings  are  tremendous 
factors  in  hastening  the  obsequies.  But  the  final 
blow  must  be  dealt  by  governmental  enactment 
followed  by  strict  law  enforcement  policies. 

There  are  three  classes  of  people  who  believe 
in  the  partizan  policy  of  dealing  with  this  ques- 
tion, and  for  the  following  reasons: 

1.  Those  who  honestly  and  sincerely  believe 
that  the  problem  can  not  be  finally  solved  except 
through  the  agency  of  a political  party  specifically 
championing  this  cause  as  a paramount  issue. 
These  are  sincere  people  who,  tho  mistaken,  just 
as  honestly  desire  the  overthrow  of  the  traffic  as 
any  other  class  of  advocates. 

2.  Those  who  are  not  overburdened  with  a 
compelling  conscience  in  the  matter,  but  who  be- 
lieve it  is,  or  is  to  be,  a great  political  issue  that 
is  soon  to  dispense  partizan,  political  preferment. 
While  they  may  be  anxious  that  the  traffic  be 
overthrown,  they  are  equally  anxious  that  it  be 
not  done  until  the  party  idea  triumphs  and  they 
somehow  can  be  associated  with  it  from  that 
standpoint. 


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3,  Those  who  see  the  great  evils  of  the  traffic 
and  are  anxious  that  it  be  overthrown,  but  who 
have  not  the  sustained  industry  and  virility  out 
of  which  real  reformers  are  made.  They  find  it 
easy  to  convince  themselves  that  the  party  idea 
is  right,  and  thereby  excuse  themselves  from  all 
responsibility  connected  with  the  evils  of  the 
traffic  by  simply  voting  a party  ticket.  Unques- 
tionably this  has  the  merit  of  being  a comfort- 
able way  of  discharging  great  obligations.  It 
likewise  has  the  sanction  of  the  liquor  traffickers 
themselves. 

To  vote  any  party  ticket  in  great  centers  like 
New  York,  Boston,  Philadelphia,  Chicago,  and 
scores  of  others,  as  a means  for  overthrowing 
the  traffic  in  such  centers,  is  about  as  ludicrous 
as  attempting  to  put  out  the  fires  of  Vesuvius 
with  a garden  hose. 

The  man  who  bravely  announces  his  opposition 
to  all  half-way  policies  and  measures  may  be  a 
fine  idealist,  but  he  is  not  the  type  of  man  to  go 
to  war  with  if  you  expect  to  win  victories.  The 
velocity  of  the  wind  is  not  nearly  so  important 
as  the  direction  in  which  it  blows. 

In  the  South  men  support  Prohibition  who  are 
not  Prohibitionists,  because  they  are  to  receive 
preferment  from  the  only  party  there  is.  They 
must  support  Prohibition  not  for  the  good  of  the 
party,  but  for  their  own  political  safety. 

To  hang  the  issues  of  State  and  national  Pro- 


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hibition  upon  the  exigencies  of  a political  party, 
where  there  is  more  than  one  party,  is  an  un- 
pardonable folly.  Any  moral  issue  that  is  not 
sectional  but  universal  in  its  evil  effects  that  is 
entrusted  to  the  opportunism  of  a party,  will 
sooner  or  later  be  destroyed  in  the  house  of  its 
friends.  There  is  no  suggestion  in  this  that 
political  parties  should  never,  by  platform,  adopt 
the  policies  of  those  who  advocate  moral  reforms. 
If  the  reform  is  to  be  permanently  successful,  it 
will  not  be  adopted  by  the  political  parties 
out  of  persistent  request  from  the  reformers, 
but  because  the  reform  so  commands  the  favor- 
able consideration  of  the  electorate  that  political 
parties  will  adopt  it,  not  for  the  sake  of  the  re- 
form, but  for  the  success  of  the  political  party. 
Political  parties  do  not  make  issues;  they  adopt 
issues  that  are  already  made.  To  attempt  to 
force  action  by  political  parties  is  to  pluck  fruit 
while  it  is  yet  green. 

When  the  sentiment  is  builded  and  organized 
that  will  make  Prohibition  effective,  all  political 
parties  will  put  Prohibition  in  their  platforms 
without  the  solicitation  of  those  engaged  in  ad- 
vancing the  propaganda,  for  the  lives  of  the 
parties  depend  upon  it.  Idaho  furnishes  a con- 
crete example. 

WTien  reformers  spend  their  time  building  and 
maintaining  political  party  organizations  in  the 
interest  of  a moral  reform,  the  reform  is  bound 


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to  fail  because  of  lost  motion  and  misspent  en- 
ergy. We  need  not  fear  what  political  parties 
will  do  when  we  have  built  a public  sentiment 
that  will  make  it  safe  for  them  to  do  right. 

It  is  the  business  of  the  church  and  the  home 
to  inaugurate  and  maintain  moral  issues.  It  is 
the  duty  of  political  parties  to  support  the  church 
and  the  home  to  the  extent  of  crystallizing  into 
law  paramount  moral  issues,  and  then  to  see  to 
it  that  the  enforcement  of  that  law  is  placed  in 
the  hands  of  its  friends.  This  can  only  be  suc- 
cessfully accomplished  when  the  electorate  is  in- 
telligent and  alert  at  the  ballot  box,  regardless 
of  party.  Our  duty  is  ever  with  the  electorate, 
which  is  political,  rather  than  the  party,  which  is 
partizan. 

Results  have  proven  the  wisdom  of  the 
League’s  policy  from  the  beginning,  which  has 
been  intensely  political  but  never  partizan,  where 
more  than  one  party  existed,  and  there  the  bat- 
tles have  always  been  fought  in  the  primaries. 
If  party  action  is  sought,  the  way  to  secure  it  is 
to  demonstrate  ability  to  elect  friendly  candi- 
dates and  defeat  unfriendly  candidates  for  office 
on  all  party  tickets.  Most  right-thinking  men 
will  go  with  you  for  or  against  a given  candi- 
date, but  they  will  not  follow  for  or  against  a 
party.  In  the  party  many  issues  are  involved; 
in  the  candidates  but  one  issue  is  involved. 

We  shall  not  soon  forget  the  first  real  test  of 


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this  policy  made  in  Ohio.  The  League,  with  its 
growing  strength  in  that  State,  was  defeating 
candidates  for  the  Legislature  on  both  party 
tickets.  The  feeling  among  politicians  was  be- 
coming acute.  In  Democratic  districts  and  coun- 
ties where  the  fights  were  on,  the  Democrats,  on 
the  stump  and  in  the  press,  denounced  us  as  a 
Republican  side-show.  In  Republican  districts 
and  counties,  under  like  conditions,  we  were  de- 
nounced as  a Democratic  side-show;  but  we  held 
steadily  to  our  policy,  with  some  misgivings  as 
to  what  might  happen,  when  one  day  the  tele- 
phone bell  rang  and  the  campaign  manager  of 
the  Republican  party  was  at  the  other  end  ask- 
ing for  an  interview.  It  was  granted,  and  his 
proposition  was  like  this:  ‘‘We  are  trying  to 
avoid  fights;  let  us  whenever  possible  get  to- 
gether. In  this  district  and  in  these  counties  the 
temperance  sentiment  is  strong.  Select  a good, 
loyal  Republican  that  stands  right  on  your  ques- 
tion and  as  party  manager;  we  will  help  nomi- 
nate him.”  In  less  than  ten  days  from  that  time 
the  campaign  manager  of  the  Democratic  party 
requested  an  interview,  which  was  granted,  and 
he  made  practically  the  same  proposition. 

The  Legislature  elected  that  year  gave  us  our 
first  real  anti-saloon  law,  and  from  that  time  to 
the  present  we  have  been  winning  victories  by 
this  method  until  nineteen  States,  more  than  half 
our  population  and  more  than  three  fourths  of 


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our  territory,  are  now  enjoying  the  blessings  of 
Prohibition. 

The  only  concession  made  by  these  Ohio  poli- 
ticians was  that  we  were  entitled  to  the  votes  in 
the  Legislature  from  our  legitimate  territory 
without  party  interference.  This  is  all  we  are 
entitled  to,  and  when  we  can  have  that  we  can 
win  victories  faster  than  we  can  take  care  of 
them.  They  did  not  consult  us  about  the  candi- 
dates in  Cincinnati  or  Cleveland,  or  other  dis- 
tinctively wet  centers.  There  they  probably  con- 
sulted representatives  of  the  liquor  interests.  But 
we  had  won  the  recognition  of  our  territorial  and 
representative  rights,  which  was  infinitely  more 
valuable  than  an  endorsement  by  either  of  the 
parties. 

This  policy  pursued  in  politics  works  out  well 
in  official  action.  Thirty-two  Democrats  and 
thirty-one  Republicans  voted  for  the  Webb-Ken- 
yon  bill  in  the  United  States  Senate;  so,  on  the 
resolution  for  national  Prohibition  in  Congress, 
the  vote  was  omni-partizan.  ^ ^ 

With  the  thoughtless,  the  party  idea  will  more 
and  more  find  favor  as  we  approach  the  consum- 
mation of  the  great  contest.  It  avoids  the  drudg- 
ery necessary  to  a winning  cause  and  at  the  same 
time  furnishes  an  outlet  for  restrained  oratory 
so  dear  to  the  heart  of  men  and  women  who  love 
to  be  heard.  The  omni-partizan  plan  has  so 
many  trophies  to  its  credits,  while  the  partizan 


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method,  which  has  been  much  longer  in  the  field, 
has  none,  that  we  have  no  fears  that  thoughtful, 
earnest  men  will  abandon  a winning  fight  for  the 
vocation  of  a bell-ringer.  It  is  the  new  recruit 
that  needs  directing.  No  political  party  will  or 
can  give  us  a dry  United  States ; but  the  mobil- 
ized dry  sentiment  in  all  the  political  parties  can, 
and  will,  and  that  right  early.  May  heaven  help 
those  of  us  entrusted  with  leadership  to  keep  our 
heads  and  hearts  firmly  set  upon  wise  policies. 

There  are  two  classes  of  people  interested  in 
this  reform: 

1.  Those  who  are  working  at  the  job  without 
any  clearly  defined  method  or  objective.  With 
them,  real  efficiency  is  one  of  the  lost  arts.  They 
are  in  the  war,  but  utterly  indifferent  as  to  what 
division  of  the  army  they  are  fighting  in.  They 
are  equally  effective  with  the  flint-lock  or  gatling- 
gun.  The  idea  of  reform  with  them  has  become 
chronic  and  they  may  justly  be  termed  “chronic 
reformers.”  They  do  not  get  anywhere.  They 
have  lost  the  ability  to  get  anywhere,  if  they  ever 
had  it.  The  circle  of  their  influence  and  effec- 
tiveness narrows  in  exact  ratio  to  the  widening 
and  developing  of  the  cause  they  profess  to 
serve.  They  are  well-meaning  people  who  have 
lost  their  way. 

The  reformer  who  has  reached  the  point  of 
ease  in  agitation,  or  has  become  comfortable  in 
defeat,  or  counts  the  cost  to  himself,  had  better 


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give  up  liis  commission  and  devote  himself  to 
more  congenial  and  less  strenuous  pursuit.  Re- 
form must  have  everywhere  a leadership  that 
inspires  men  to  a holy  self-abandon  that  sinks 
all  in  a great  common  cause.  If  we  are  to  win 
the  great  battle  committed  to  us  by  this  genera- 
tion, it  will  be  by  that  spirit  of  abandon,  that 
self-effacement  that  makes  us  live  only  in  the 
cause  we  represent. 

2.  Those  ivho  are  working  to  finish  the  joh. 
While  there  is  neither  wisdom  nor  inspiration  in 
fixing  the  dates  for  the  consummation  of  any  re- 
form, the  man  who  is  not  expecting  the  complete 
overthrow  of  the  drink  traffic  in  and  by  this  gen- 
eration is  not  in  touch  with  the  swing  of  events 
and  can  not  be  a factor  in  inspiring  his  fellows  to 
the  best  that  is  in  them.  What  might  have  been 
great  military  victories  have  been  lost  by  a fail- 
ure on  the  part  of  the  victorious  army  to  follow 
up  the  advantage  won.  The  liquor  traffic  con- 
cedes defeat.  It  has  been  driven  from  its 
trenches,  one  after  another,  until  at  last  it  is  in 
the  open,  naked,  unprotected,  deserted  by  most 
of  its  former  friends,  pleading  for  a few  more 
years  to  be  added  to  its  worthless  life.  Mean- 
while the  forces  are  mobilizing  for  the  final 
drive.  The  friends  of  sobriety  are  unified  as  at 
no  time  in  the  past.  Our  methods  of  warfare 
are  sane  and  successful  and  appeal  to  men  of 
affairs.  The  whole  world  is  having  a revelation 


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of  the  truth  of  what  once  seemed  to  be  fanatical 
utterances  by  rum’s  most  radical  opponents.  Its 
abolition  in  Russia  means  efficiency  in  the  army, 
in  the  shop,  on  the  farm,  and  unparalleled  pros- 
perity everywhere.  Its  tightening  grip  on  Eng- 
land is,  and  has  been  since  the  war  began,  Eng- 
land’s greatest  peril.  It  would  sell  the  birth- 
right of  any  nation  if  by  so  doing  it  could  fill  its 
coffers  with  ill-gotten  gain.  It  stifles  enterprise, 
it  advocates  ruin  and  breeds  treason  everywhere. 
The  nations  of  the  earth  are  preparing  to  drive 
it  into  outer  darkness. 

In  this  country  we  are  hearing  much  about 
preparedness.  Big  ships  and  more  ships;  big 
guns  and  more  big  guns;  big  munition  factories 
and  more  munition  factories,  are  being  dinned 
into  our  ears  daily,  as  if  we  were  on  the  brink  of 
war  with  the  whole  earth.  But  it  seems  not  to 
have  occurred  to  these  political  leaders  that  the 
surest,  safest,  and  altogether  the  most  needed 
preparedness  is  to  prepare  the  citizenship  of  the 
country  for  the  most  efficient,  patriotic  and  intel- 
ligent service  they  are  capable  of  rendering. 
This  can  only  be  performed  by  a sober  citizen- 
ship. One  can  feel  only  a sense  of  humiliation 
and  disgust  as  he  witnesses  our  public  men 
charging  up  and  down  the  country  shouting  for 
preparedness  in  everything  except  the  chief  es- 
sential— a sober  manhood! 

Of  all  the  great  nations  there  are  none  whose 


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chief  public  men  are  so  timid,  not  to  say  down- 
right cowardly,  as  are  ours  touching  this  aspect 
of  the  preparedness  policy.  They  are  perfect 
lions  when  denouncing  the  hyphenates  and  per- 
fectly dumb  when  the  thing  that  makes  and 
keeps  them  hyphenates  is  brought  to  their  at- 
tention. The  grog-shop  is  the  hyphen. 

The  time  to  close  in  upon  this  foe  of  human- 
kind is  now.  Every  Legislator,  every  Congress- 
man, every  United  States  Senator,  or  candidate 
for  the  same,  who  by  word  or  act  gives  comfort 
and  aid  to  this  traffic,  should  feel  the  weight  of 
\y"the  swift  and  heavy  hand  of  an  outraged  public 
at  the  ballot  box.  Any  proposition  that  the 
States  should  decide  this  matter  for  themselves 
is  in  the  interest  of  the  liquor  traffic.  National 
evils  are  not  eradicated  by  local  treatment.  We 
demand  of  our  national  Congress  that  it  at  once 
submit  to  the  several  States  for  their  ratification 
or  rejection  the  pending  joint  resolution  for  Na- 
tional Constitutional  Prohibition. 


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THE  FUTURE  AND  THE  FINAL  TRIUMPH 
IS  GOD  ORDAINED* 

This  wonderful  movement  was  begun  and  it 
has  been  in  the  power  of  Almighty  God  con- 
tinued. Can  we  doubt  it  will  be  completed  by 
God’s  will  in  the  full  triumph  of  the  principles 
for  which  it  has  been  set  in  motion?  Let  us 
briefly  review  the  correlation  of  recent  events 
which  burnish  the  horizon  with  prophetic  gleams. 
This  constellation  of  facts  can  be  reviewed  only 
in  the  merest  outline : 

Business  now  requires  sobriety  in  employees; 
the  railroads  for  some  years,  and  more  and  more 
manufacturers  and  all  other  employers  insist  on 
their  abstinence  from  drink.  The  Pullman  Com- 
pany and  the  railways  are  abolishing  intoxicants 
from  the  dining-cars.  Stern  sentiment  is  being 
built  by  the  attitude  of  life  insurance  com- 
panies, all  secret  and  fraternal  orders,  and  the 
opinions  of  judges  and  prosecutors.  Patriotic 
newspapers  and  the  best  magazines  are  drop- 
ping liquor  advertisements.  Three  generations 
of  school  children  have  been  taught  against  yi 
the  use  of  alcohol — praise  God  for  the  life 
and  work  of  Mary  H.  Hunt ! The  Sunday- 
schools  have  become  very  active  for  abstinence 
teaching  and  pledge-signing,  and  the  discovery 

* From  aa  address  by  Dr.  Howard  H.  Eussell,  of  Westerville,  Ohio. 


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of  the  Lincoln  pledge,  now  signed  by  nearly  two 
millions,  was  a providential  help  to  the  moral 
suasion  service.  Labor  leaders  are  taking  firm 
ground  against  the  drink.  One  of  the  officers  of 
the  American  Federation  of  Labor  recently  has 
well  said:  “The  saloon  does  not  produce  a thing 
of  benefit  to  the  human  race.  It  is  a non-pro- 
ducer and  must  be  supported  by  those  who  work. 
Every  man  and  woman  should  be  against  the 
liquor  traffic  from  start  to  finish.”  Growing  sen- 
timent in  the  United  States  has  inspired  and 
been  strengthened  by  the  world-wide  progress. 
Every  nation  is  aroused  and  at  work,  and  in- 
ternational organization  is  rapidly  developing. 
Alcohol  has  been  condemned  by  Congress  and 
every  legislature  by  severe  repressive  and  sup- 
pressive legislation.  At  the  bar  of  the  courts, 
as  you  know,  it  is  found  guilty  of  crime,  poverty 
and  disease,  is  held  to  have  no  inherent  right. to 
exist,  and  from  now  on  it  is  a contest  between 
the  legislative  and  judicial  branches  of  our  Gov- 
ernment as  to  which  shall  first  attain  the  goal 
of  absolute  Prohibition.  The  Senate  of  the 
United  States  has  now  been  brought  close  to  the 
people  by  the  new  constitutional  amendment  pro- 
viding for  direct  nomination  and  election.  That 
is  why  the  Webb-Kenyon  bill  received  so  great 
a majority.  The  method  of  providing  revenue 
by  the  income  tax  also  solves  a vital  problem  in 
this  reform  and  answers  the  question,  TThat  shall 


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we  do  for  revenue  when  the  liquor  traffic  is 
abolished? 

In  addition  to  all  these  inspiring  facts  there 
have  been  three  special  and  essential  changes  by 
which  God  is  fixing  the  time  limit  upon  this 
baneful  traffic.  First  by  the  unification  of  re- 
ligious sects  for  cooperation  in  service.  Forty  / 
years  ago  the  churches  were  widely  divided  upon 
questions  of  doctrine  and  methods  of  work.  In 
my  boyhood,  for  example,  I heard  hot  debates 
upon  the  method  of  baptism.  In  the  old  days 
the  churches  could  not  have  been  united  upon 
this  moral  reform.  Twenty-five  years  ago  the 
Evangelical  Alliance  called  delegates  of  the 
churches  together  at  Washington  for  a council 
upon  cooperation  in  Christian  work.  A Pente- 
cost was  begun  there  which  spread  throughout 
the  country,  and  the  new  God-sent  spirit  of  toler- 
ation made  possible  our  League  for  sobriety  and 
against  saloons.  The  strength  of  the  movement 
has  been  tremendous  in  its  influence  when  all 
branches  of  Christendom  have  joined  in  this 
united  campaign. 

God  also  has  ordained  a harmonious  union  of 
the  sections  of  the  nation.  The  final  extermina- 
tion of  the  liquor  traffic  is  a national  problem. 
Pent  and  distracted  as  we  sectionally  were  dur- 
ing the  nineteenth  century,  such  a united  move- 
ment for  temperance  had  to  be  postponed  until 
the  other  question  was  settled.  That  difference 


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is  ended.  Out  from  the  shadows  of  sectional 
rancor  and  strife  we  have  emerged,  as  a South- 
ern orator  has  said,  “With  the  blood  pulsing  in 
veins  unclotted  by  a single  bitter  memory.”  Aud 
God  closed  the  century’s  account  by  cementing 
our  pacification  through  a joint  patriotic  task. 
As  the  Highlanders  forgot  Colloden  and  the 
Irishmen  the  Boyne  and  leaped  with  a common 
patriotism  to  uphold  the  conflict  against  Napo- 
leon at  Waterloo,  so  forgetting  Vicksburg  and 
Gettysburg,  the  men  who  had  worn  the  gray 
joined  the  men  who  had  worn  the  blue,  and  led 
by  the  old  Commanders  Miles  and  Shatter  from 
the  North,  and  Lee  and  Wheeler  from  the  South, 
to  the  thrilling,  mingled  melodies  of  Yankee 
Doodle  and  Dixie,  God  sent  us  forth  together,  to 
hear  the  banner  of  our  reunited  Republic  of  lib- 
erty, and  to  plant  it  far  in  the  van  of  the  victori- 
ous moral  forces  of  the  world.  And  we  will  con- 
tinue right  on  with  our  patriotic  compact  regard- 
less of  sex  or  party,  nationality  or  race,  sect  or 
section,  and  together  as  sisters  and  brothers  we 
will  bear  our  flag  of  the  free  up  the  steeps  of 
sacrifice  and  service  until  it  floats  at  length, 
stainless  and  glorious,  over  a nation  with 
churches,  schools  and  homes  upon  the  hilltop  and 
no  brewery  or  distillery  upon  the  hillside  and  no 
saloon  in  the  valley! 

Then,  beside  these  wondrous  preparations  al- 
ready noted,  we  are  called  to  have  grateful 


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hearts  because  of  the  new  reinforcements  com- 
ing to  our  aid  from  the  ballots  of  women.  If  we 
needed  any  warrant  to  make  assurance  doubly 
sure,  the  coming  “votes  for  women”  leave  no 
doubt  of  the  result.  Indeed,  in  several  States 
these  ballots  have  now  come  into  the  field.  In 
Illinois  many  victories  have  been  won  by  their 
aid  which  otherwise  would  have  been  impossible. 
In  the  city  of  Virginia,  in  Illinois,  four  hundred 
votes  were  cast  by  women,  and  every  one  of 
these  votes  was  against  the  saloons.  In  Jack- 
sonville more  women  voted  than  men,  and  while 
there  was  but  a small  majority  registered  by 
men  for  the  dry  side,  the  women  cast  their  bal- 
lots five  to  one  against  the  rumshops.  Samuel 
Lover,  in  his  sketch  of  the  repair  of  the  chapel, 
has  the  parish  priest  saying  when  the  subscrip- 
tions came  in  so  generously  from  the  ladies, 
“The  wimen  are  behaving  thimsilves  like  gintle- 
men.”  Next  spring  the  thirty  counties  now  dry 
in  Illinois  will  be  doubled  and  we  shall  have 
sixty,  and  in  these  counties  cities  like  Gales- 
burg, Monmouth,  Decatur  and  other  strong  mu- 
nicipalities will  say  farewell  to  the  saloons  for- 
ever, and  all  this  by  the  help  of  the  good 
women ! 

This  reform,  then,  in  which  our  League  has 
been  called  to  so  important  a part,  has  been  begun, 
continued  and  will  be  ended  by  the  power  of  Al- 
mighty God.  I have  rehearsed  a few  of  the  signs 


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that  surely  show  the  stars  in  their  courses  are 
fighting  against  the  liquor  infamy.  All  the  facts 
I have  so  imperfectly  touched  upon  make  as 
strong  a guaranty  of  coming  blessing  as  were  the 
facts  in  evidence  to  predict  in  all  the  nations  the 
downfall  of  human  slavery : in  the  American  colo- 
nies the  successful  revolution  for  an  independent 
nation;  in  Germany  the  Lutheran  reformation; 
or,  in  the  fulness  of  oriental  time,  the  birth  of 
the  Messiah,  the  Savior  of  men  and  Inspirer  of 
all  reforms,  over  whose  manger-cradle  was  hung 
the  herald-star  of  Bethlehem. 

Under  clearing  skies  and  prest  by  favoring 
breezes,  the  Anti-Saloon  League  craft  moves  on 
toward  the  port  of  Prohibition.  The  words  of 
the  New  England  poet  spoken  of  the  good  ship 
Union,  apply  as  solemnly  here : 

“Humanity  with  all  its  fears. 

With  all  its  hopes  of  future  years. 

Is  hanging  breathless  on  thy  fate!” 

I have  given  you  to-day  the  surest  and  best 
foundation  for  our  hope  of  final  victory.  It  is  in 
God  Almighty.  He  who  hath  begun  and  con- 
tinued this  good  work  will  indeed  complete  it. 


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/ 

THE  SALOON  IN  EPIGRAM  * 

The  spirit  of  the  toasts  is  that  liquor  will  give 
us  joy  and  drown  our  troubles.  There  never  was 
a falser  note  struck  on  the  chords  of  human  life. 
Drink  does  not  drown  our  troubles,  it  floats  them. 
We  may  lock  them  in  the  closet  of  a night  of 
debauchery  and  think  we  have  forgotten  them; 
but  they  come  trooping  forth  in  the  gray  dawn 
of  the  morning  to  mock  and  deride  us.  When  the 
magic  wand  is  withdrawn,  the  dreams  have  van- 
ished— the  bright  illusions  which  our  distempered 
fancy  pictured  are  gone;  the  castles  have  fallen; 
reality  has  come,  and  only  the  dull,  cold  ashes  of 
regret  remain. 

If  we  have  no  sorrows,  liquor  creates  them; 
and  if  we  have  them,  it  increases  them  and  makes 
them  harder  to  bear. 

It  blights  the  young  man  as  lightning  does  the 
tree,  and  leaves  him  stript  of  his  heritage. 

It  takes  from  middle  age  ambition  and  hope, 
and  robs  old  age  of  its  serenity  and  peace. 

It  is  the  thief  of  character. 

It  turns  men  into  monsters  and  women  into 
harlots. 

It  invades  the  ballot  box  to  corrupt  it. 

It  weakens  the  administration  of  justice. 

* From  an  address  by  Former  Governor  Malcolm  H.  Patterson, 
of  Tennessee. 


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It  is  the  polluted  stream  which  mingles  with 
the  current  of  public  affairs  and  poisons  all  it 
touches. 

Whenever  it  comes  it  brings  a sorrow,  and 
whenever  it  goes  it  leaves  a remorse. 

The  American  people  must  pay  annually  two 
billion  dollars  as  the  tribute  which  liquor  exacts. 
They  must  maintain  at  enormous  cost  reforma- 
tories, rescue  mission  homes,  asylums,  jails  and 
penitentiaries  to  take  care  of  those  it  has  stricken 
down. 

Liquor  dulls  the  edge  of  endeavor;  it  dethrones 
the  reason;  it  enters  and  stains  the  cloisters  of 
spirituality,  and  becomes  the  foul  and  stealthy 
murderer  of  human  souls. 

If  you  would  know  more  of  its  black  and  blight- 
ing record,  look  at  the  long,  sad  and  dreary  pro- 
cession of  its  victims.  Go  to  the  courts  and  see 
the  crimes  it  has  caused  and  the  criminals  it  has 
made. 

Go  to  the  prison  and  read  the  story  of  its 
tragedies  in  the  listless  eyes  and  hopeless  faces 
behind  the  bars. 

Go  to  the  police  stations  and  find  the  derelicts, 
the  driftwood  of  humanity,  as  you  see  them 
moving  and  shuffling  in  the  fear  and  cowardice  of 
misspent  lives. 

Go  to  the  divorce  courts  and  hear  the  causes 
which  dissolve  the  holy  bonds  of  wedlock  and 
send  families  adrift. 


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Go  to  the  homes  where  the  serpent  has  left  its 
slimy  trail  on  the  lintels  of  the  door. 

Hear  the  oaths  and  curses,  the  revilings  and 
imprecations  from  thickened  tongues  and  mad- 
dened brains. 

See  the  wife  and  mother,  as  she  pales  in  terror, 
with  a bruised  and  broken  heart.  See  the  chil- 
dren as  they  huddle  and  shiver  in  fright,  like 
birds  before  the  hunter’s  gun.  See  the  sweet 
milk  of  concord  sour  and  turn  into  the  very  broth 
of  hell. 

Liquor ! liquor ! how  I hate  it ! 

I hate  it  for  what  it  has  done  for  me  and  those 
I love. 

I hate  it  for  what  it  has  done  to  others ! to  the 
State ! and  to  my  country ! 

I hate  it  with  every  fiber  of  my  being — with 
every  passion  of  my  soul ! 

I hate  it  for  the  tears  it  has  caused  to  flow,  for 
the  blood  it  has  shed,  for  the  homes  and  happi- 
ness it  has  wrecked,  for  the  men  and  women  it 
has  ruined! 


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THE  APPEAL  OF  CHILDHOOD  * 

Because  there  was  no  line  they  would  re- 
spect, there  was  no  oath  they  would  hold  sacred, 
there  was  not  one  single  solitary  promise  they 
would  keep,  there  was  no  man  they  would  not 
degrade,  there  was  no  woman  they  would  not  de- 
file, there  was  not  a child  from  whose  lips  they 
would  not  snatch  the  last  crust  of  bread,  in  order 
that  they  might  put  more  bloody  dollars  into 
their  pockets — because  of  that,  the  cry  is  to-day 
from  all  over  the  land,  “We  are  going  on  to 
Washington  for  a saloonless  nation  in  1920.” 
God  makes  the  wrath  of  men  to  praise  Him;  He 
marches  down  the  ages  and  marshals  the  very 
devil’s  forces  for  Him,  and  the  sneaking  and  con- 
temptible lawlessness  of  the  liquor  traffic  defeats 
its  own  ends,  and  arouses  the  righteous  man- 
hood of  this  nation  until  they  are  going  to  smash 
this  thing  in  the  United  States  of  America  into 
everlasting  smithereens.  And  then  there  is  more 
beyond,  and  we  propose  not  to  lay  down  our  arms 
until  from  the  sighing  pines  of  Oregon  to  the 
flashing  seas  of  Brazil,  from  the  snow-capped 
plains  of  Superior  to  the  orange  groves  of  Sicily, 
throughout  the  civilized  world,  the  whole  human 
\ race  is  marching  under  the  white  banner  of  peace 
and  purity,  of  integrity  and  Prohibition,  for  the 

* From  an  address  by  Mary  Harris  Armor,  of  Georgia. 


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protection  of  their  homes  and  the  redemption  of 
their  children.  We  will  not  rest  until  that  comes 
to  pass. 

I ask  you  another  thing.  Women  can  fend  for 
themselves  to  a certain  extent.  We  speak  of 
women  as  so  helpless.  That  appeals  to  me,  but 
there  is  one  thing  that  appeals  to  me  more  than 
that,  and  that  is  a little  child.  May  I tell  you 
about  one  little  girl  that  was  a drunkard’s  child? 
I knew  a little  girl.  She  was  considered  a very 
bright  child.  She  had  a vaulting  ambition.  She 
dreamed  one  day  she  might  write  her  name  be- 
side that  of  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning,  who 
was  her  favorite  poet,  and  whom  she  loved  better 
than  any  other  woman  she  had  ever  read  of  in 
all  the  world.  It  seemed  that  her  heart  beat  with 
the  heart  of  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning  when- 
ever she  read  her  wonderful  verses.  She  had  a 
father  who  had  a brilliant  mind,  who  had  a great 
heart,  that  was  as  brave  as  Julius  Csesar;  he 
taught  her  her  prayers ; he  taught  her  the  Bible ; 
he  taught  her  the  poems  of  Shakespeare;  he 
taught  her  to  see  that  the  stars  were  the  flowers 
of  the  angels,  and  the  flowers  were  the  smiles  of 
God;  he  taught  her  to  see  even  more  than  the 
colors  of  the  rainbow;  he  taught  her  it  was  the 
sign  of  the  Omnipotent  Father,  set  in  the 
heavens,  the  beautiful  symbol  of  the  promise  of 
God  that  He  would  never  again  send  His  flood 
to  destroy  man  whom  He  had  made;  he  taught 


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her  to  despise  cowardice;  he  taught  her  to  de- 
spise littleness  and  niggardliness,  until  to-day  she 
is  a middle-aged  woman  and  she  has  almost  as 
much  contempt  for  a picayunish  man  as  she  has 
for  a thief;  he  taught  her  to  be  loyal  in  friend- 
ship, true  in  love,  faithful  as  death,  and  yet  trust- 
ing him  as  she  trusted  God  Himself;  how  she 
used  to  sit  on  his  knee,  and  lay  her  head  against 
his  heart,  that  heart  which  beat  for  her  and  which 
would  have  shed  its  last  drop  of  blood  in  her  de- 
fense at  any  hour  of  the  day  or  night;  she  would 
lay  her  rosy  finger-tips  against  his  cheeks  and  fon- 
dle that  father,  put  the  baby  arms  around  his  neck 
and  love  him,  and  he  would  say,  “Hug  me  as 
hard  as  you  love  me,  ’ ’ but  she  never  could.  She 
believed  in  that  father,  but  one  day  that  father 
came  home  drunk.  God  in  heaven,  how  did  you 
stay  your  thunder  that  day?  Her  world  was  in 
ruins.  But  she  did  not  tell  it  to  anybody.  No, 
she  never  told  her  mother.  She  did  not  tell  her 
father.  She  did  not  know  how  to  tell  anybody. 
She  was  like  a baby  crying  in  the  night,  a baby 
crying  for  the  light,  and  with  no  language  but  a 
cry.  Hope  lived  in  her  heart  day  after  day  that 
that  father  would  break  with  the  saloon.  He  did 
not  go  down  easily ; he  did  not  want  to  go  down ; 
he  fought  for  his  manhood ; but  what  chance  did  he 
have  with  a legalized  saloon  on  every  corner? 
With  that  fiendish  appetite  gnawing  at  his 
vitals,  one  day  be  became  a vicarious  sacrifice, 


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and  an  eighteen-year-old  girl  knelt  with  a broken 
heart  by  her  father’s  dead  body  and  swore  eter- 
nal vengeance  against  the  liquor  traffic. 

NO  TURNING  BACK  * 

We  are  interested  in  the  success  of  every 
worthy  cause,  and  every  worthy  cause  is  vitally 
related  to  ours.  We  must  lay  more  money  upon 
the  altar  of  sacrifice.  We  must  send  forth  more 
literature  from  our  presses.  We  must  put  more 
men  in  the  field.  The  enemy  is  fighting  for  its 
life.  Its  resistance,  its  opposition,  shall  be  ac- 
cording to  the  full  measure  of  its  resources.  It 
is  possible  to  lose  all  the  advantage  we  have 
gained  in  all  the  years  through  perversity  or  in- 
difference. It  is  possible  to  see  the  golden  gate 
of  opportunity  swing  shut  if  there  be  hesitancy 
in  answering  the  call  of  the  hour.  In  this  great, 
significant  moment  we  need  to  get  closer  each  to 
the  other,  need  to  get  closer  to  God,  need  to  take 
counsel  of  our  hopes  rather  than  of  our  fears, 
need  to  look  out  upon  the  foe,  remembering  the 
wrong  wrought  and  the  greater  wrong  threatened, 
need  to  pledge  to  each  other,  to  humanity,  and  to 
God,  with  courage  undaunted,  with  purpose  un- 
conquerable, our  zeal  undiminished,  our  service, 
our  sacrifice,  until  our  endeavor  issues  in  con- 
sumate  victory. 

* From  an  address  by  Bishop  Luther  B.  Wilson,  of  New  York. 

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In  the  old  days  of  the  sixties,  when  the  strug- 
gle between  the  States  was  still  on,  it  happened 
that  the  lines  of  communication  between  the  cities 
of  the  North  and  the  men  at  the  front  had  been 
broken.  No  word  had  come  for  weary  days  from 
our  great  Ulysses.  The  North  was  impatient  to 
hear,  and  the  men  in  the  ranks  could  feel  the  in- 
fluence of  the  fear  they  knew  must  disquiet  so 
many  homes.  Word  must  be  sent  from  the  field, 
cost  what  it  would.  A young  correspondent  was 
chosen  for  the  difficult  and  dangerous  journey. 
He  was  made  ready  for  the  start.  There  had 
been  messages  from  officers  at  headquarters,  and 
then,  as  the  correspondent  was  about  to  mount 
for  the  journey.  General  Grant  followed,  and 
laying  his  hand  upon  him  said:  “You  will  see 
Mr.  Lincoln,  and  when  you  do  tell  him  this  word : 
‘ General  Grant  says  that,  whatever  happens,  there 
will  be  no  turning  back.  ’ ’ ’ The  dangers  faced  and 
conquered,  at  length  the  young  man  stood  in  the 
presence  of  the  cabinet  at  Washington.  His  re- 
port of  events  that  had  transpired  was  given, 
and  then,  calling  the  President  aside,  he  whis- 
pered to  him  the  message  he  had  received : ‘ ‘ Gen- 
eral Grant  says  that,  whatever  happens,  there  will 
be  no  turning  back.”  Mr.  Wing,  who  tells  the 
story,  adds  that  when  that  most  illustrious  son  of 
the  western  world  heard  the  word,  he  stooped 
down  and  kissed  the  bearer  of  the  message  on 
the  brow. 


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Facing  now  our  opportunity,  resolving  that  for 
the  welfare  of  the  Republic,  for  the  good  of  all, 
rich  and  poor,  high  and  lowly,  wise  or  unlettered. 
Prohibition  should  be  written  in  the  constitution, 
and  dedicating  ourselves  for  the  accomplishment 
of  this  most  worthy  end,  let  this  hour  send  up 
to  the  God  of  nations  our  solemn  pledge  that, 
whatever  happens,  there  shall  be  no  turning  hack. 
It  may  he — it  must  be — that  as  we  join  in  such 
a pledge  our  Divine  Leader  shall  give  to  us  His 
token  of  approval. 


THE  GREED  AND  ANARCHY  OF  THE 
SALOON  * 

The  greed  of  money.  There  are  just  eight 
money-making  crimes.  Did  you  ever  learn  that 
all  the  crimes — in  America — all  the  money-mak- 
ing crimes — could  be  put  under  eight  heads? 
Here  they  are:  train  robbery,  house  burglary, 
grafting,  trick  stealing  among  the  poor  and 
big  stealing  among  the  rich,  kidnapping,  gam- 
bling, bondage-house  business,  and  the  saloon 
business.  There  are  eight  money-making  crimes. 
Now,  listen!  Every  one  of  the  great  crimes  of 
America  out  of  which  you  make  money  you  can 
gather  under  these  heads.  Now,  I am  going  to  tell 
you  another  strange  thing. 

*■  From  an  address  by  Dr.  George  E.  Stuart,  of  Tennessee. 

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(Here  arranges  eight  chairs  in  a row  across 
front  of  platform.) 

(Continuing)  It  is  an  unholy  greed  for  money. 

(Speaking  to  first  chair) — “Say  man,  what 
makes  you  rob  a train?  Is  it  right?”  (Answer) 
“No,  I am  out  for  money.” 

(To  second  chair) — “Say,  what  makes  you  bur- 
glarize a house?  Is  it  right?”  “No,  I want  the 
money.  ’ ’ 

(To  third  chair) — “What  makes  you  pass  coun- 
terfeit money?  Is  it  right?”  “No,  I want  the 
money.” 

(To  fourth  chair) — “What  makes  you  graft? 
Is  it  right?”  “No,  I want  the  money.” 

(To  the  fifth  chair) — “What  made  you  kidnap? 
Is  it  right ?”  “No,  I need  the  money. ’ ’ 

(To  sixth  chair) — “What  makes  you  run  that 
red-light  district?  Is  it  right.”  “No,  I want  the 
money.  ’ ’ 

(To  seventh  chair) — “What  makes  you  gam- 
ble? Is  it  right?”  “No,  I want  the  money.” 

(To  eighth  chair) — “What  makes  you  sell 
liquor?  Is  it  right?”  “No,  I want  the  money.” 
(Places  chairs  in  circle  around  the  “saloon” 
chair.) 

And  the  whole  bunch  of  them  are  all  together. 
Now,  the  saloon  is  the  only  crowd  that  has  got 
any  money.  All  the  rest  of  these  fellows  are 
paupers,  and  they  gather  around  it,  and  it  has 
got  to  care  for  the  whole  bunch  of  them.  It  finds 


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this  whole  nest  of  devilish  crimes.  And  what  is 
worse,  it  has  got  the  United  States  license,  and 
the  American  flag  over  it.  And  the  time  will 
come  when  we  will  fight  these  back  and  fight  them 
alone.  We  will  down  the  saloon  and  wave  the 
American  flag  over  it. 

(Illustrates  with  chairs  and  throws  the  center 
chair  over.) 

(Continuing)  It  has  got  the  devil  in  it.  It  is 
the  devil  of  greed,  greed  for  money,  greed  for 
money.  A saloon-keeper  said  to  me  some  time 
ago:  “George  Stuart,  many  a time  when  I have 
seen  a poor,  ragged,  half-barefooted,  blear-eyed 
devil  come  up  to  my  counter  and  lay  down  the 
last  quarter  he  had,  that  I knew  his  wife  and 
children  needed  for  bread — God,  if  I didn’t  hate 
to  pick  it  up!”  I said:  “You  low-down  devil, 
you;  you  had  no  business  to  pick  it  up.”  The 
greed  of  this  devilish  gain  will  make  a fellow 
push  his  hand  into  a starving  family’s  bread  tray 
and  pull  out  the  last  biscuit.  It  will  make  him 
go  into  a family’s  wardrobe  and  take  the  last 
little  garment  of  a child,  and  it  will  make  him 
push  a way  in  the  snow  and  pull  the  shoes  otf 
of  their  little  feet,  and  they  are  hungry  and 
ragged  and  bare-footed  all  over  this  country  be- 
cause of  the  devil  of  greed  that’s  in  this  business 
that  takes  the  money  that  ought  to  go  for  their 
comfort.  The  devil’s  in  it,  that’s  what’s  the  matter 
with  it,  and  that’s  the  reason  I am  mad  with  it. 


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The  devil  of  anarchy  also  is  in  it.  Now,  I am 
afraid  of  anything  turned  loose.  Somebody  says : 
‘‘Horses  running  away!”  I will  get  out  of  the 
way.  I am  afraid.  He  has  lost  control  of  the 
automobile,  he  has  lost  control  of  his  engine.  I 
am  afraid  of  anything  without  law.  Do  you  know 
that  the  saloon  business  is  the  only  real  anarchis- 
tic business  in  America.  Do  you  know  that? 
You  talk  about  your  anarchist,  but  the  saloon  is 
the  only  real  anarchistic  business.  It  is  the  only 
^ business  in  the  world  that  stands  up  on  its  anar- 
chy and  argues  to  you  on  the  basis  of  its  anarchy, 
then  looks  you  in  the  face  and  says : “If  you  pass 
your  law,  you  can  not  prohibit  us.  They  passed 
it  in  the  South  and  ‘Prohibition  don’t  prohibit.’ 
We  are  so  anarchistic  that  you  can’t  stop  us,  and 
you  may  as  well  let  us  go.”  Well,  I say,  let  us 
cut  a few  joints  of  her  tail  off  and  keep  jumping 
upon  her  till  we  make  her  bleed  so  we  can  stop 
her. 

One  other  point  I want  you  to  carry  home  with 
you.  It  has  got  the  demon  of  mobism  in  it.  You 
know  we  have  already  found  out  all  these  things. 
You  know  we  used  to  argue  and  argue  and  argue. 
I am  going  to  show  you  some  other  things.  Here 
is  a penitentiary.  “Do  you  gentlemen  keep 
books?”  “Yes,  we  keep  books.”  “What  sends 
the  most  of  your  folks  here?”  “Liquor.”  Here 
is  an  OiqDhans’  Home:  “Do  you  keep  hooks?” 
“Yes.”  “What  sends  most  of  your  inmates 


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here?”  “Liquor.”  “You  run  a blind  asylum. 
Do  you  keep  books?”  “Yes.”  “What  makes 
most  of  your  people  blind?”  “Nervous  diseases 
caused  by  alcohol.  ’ ’ Here  is  an  epileptic  society : 
“What  makes  your  inmates — ” and  so  on  down 
the  line — “We  keep  figures,  we  keep  statistics.” 
There  isn’t  a Mayor,  a set  of  Aldermen,  however 
wet  they  are,  in  the  United  States,  that  haven’t 
through  years  of  demonstration  found  out  one 
thing.  Out  in  California  they  had  an  earthquake 
in  San  Francisco  and  a mob  went  to  run  through 
the  city  tearing  up  everything,  robbing.  The  suf- 
ferers went  to  the  Mayor  and  said:  “For  God’s 
sake,  help  us.”  The  Mayor  said:  “Why,  sure.” 
He  issued  an  order  that  all  the  grocery  stores  in 
the  city  be  closed  up  at  once?  No,  he  didn’t 
order  that.  All  the  dry  goods  stores  close  up  at 
once?  No!  All  the  paint  shops  close  up?  No! 
All  the  drug  stores  close  up?  No!  He  just 
picked  out  one  institution  in  San  Francisco  and 
said:  “Every  saloon  shall  close  for  ninety  days.” 
What  did  he  do  that  for?  What  did  that  Mayor 
do  that  for?  He  knew  that  was  the  mother  of 
mobism,  but  what’s  the  use  to  tie  the  dog  after 
he  has  bitten  everybody  in  the  community? 

They  had  a mob  in  Atlanta.  What  was  it?  A 
trouble  between  the  blacks  and  the  whites,  and 
there  was  a shooting — shooting  them  down.  Every- 
body scared  to  death.  What  did  they  do?  The 
Mayor  ordered  all  the  grocery  stores  closed?  No, 


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lie  didn’t.  Ordered  all  the  hardware  stores 
closed?  No,  he  didn’t.  The  drug  stores  closed? 
No,  he  didn’t.  He  issued  an  order  that  every 
saloon  in  Atlanta,  Georgia,  should  he  closed  until 
further  orders.  How  did  San  Francisco  and  At- 
lanta get  news  between  them?  Listen!  Any  man 
knows  it. 

Chattanooga  is  my  town.  A drunken  negro, 
filled  up  with  liquor,  insulted  a white  woman.  A 
mob  was  organized  and  he  was  hung.  We  didn’t 
put  liquor  out  because  we  were  afraid  of  the 
nigger. 

I went  up  to  Indianapolis  to  lecture  some  time 
ago  and  a committee  came  in  and  said:  “Brother 
Stuart,  didn’t  you-all  have  Prohibition  in  the 
South  because  you  are  afraid  of  the  negro?” 
And  I said  to  him  up  there : — I went  out  and  ad- 
drest  an  audience  of  men  like  this,  three  or  four 
thousand — I said:  “A  committee  asked  me  if  we 
didn’t  put  liquor  out  of  the  South  because  we  are 
afraid  of  the  negro.”  I said:  “That’s  a funny 
thing  for  a Northern  man  to  ask  a Southern  man. 
Didn’t  you  fellows  come  down  there  and  sit  up 
with  us  four  years  and  find  out  we  are  not  afraid 
of  anything  that  wears  wool  or  hair  ? ’ ’ And  they 
just  yelled  and  hollered.  They  knew  I was  jok- 
ing. The  old  cannon  has  stopt  and  the  flower 
grows  over  its  mouth.  The  sword  is  sheathed 
and  the  gun  is  stacked  and  we  are  one  great 
brotherhood  from  North  to  South  and  East  to 


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West,  I just  wanted  ’em  to  know  we  were  not 
scared. 

They  had  a mob  on  down  there  in  Chattanooga, 
and  I went  down  there  and  saw  the  fellows  going 
into  the  hardware  stores  cramming  their  pockets 
full  of  pistols  and  shells  and  getting  guns.  I 
heard  a man  at  the  telephone  say:  “Yes,  wife. 
I’ll  be  home  directly.  Oh,  well,  I don’t  know 
what  is  going  to  happen.  Yes,  I have  got  about 
a,  hundred  shells.  Yes,  I have  got  a repeating 
rifle  and  two  revolvers.  Yes,  I’ll  come  right  now. 
Yes,  all  right.  George,  excuse  me,  my  wife  is  un- 
easy; I am  going  home.”  Listen!  The  Mayor 
of  the  city  of  Chattanooga  issued  an  order  that 
at  four  o’clock,  when  the  sun  was  hanging  like 
a golden  ball  away  yonder  in  the  sky,  every  gro- 
cery store  in  town  should  be  closed?  No,  he 
didn’t.  That  every  dry  goods  store  in  town 
should  be  closed?  No,  he  didn’t.  That  every 
hardware  store  in  town  should  be  closed?  No, 
he  didn’t.  They  were  getting  guns  and  pistols 
out  of  them.  That  every  meat  shop  in  town 
should  be  closed?  No,  he  didn’t.  He  issued  an 
order  that  every  saloon  in  the  town  should  be 
closed  at  four  o’clock  and  not  opened  until  fur- 
ther orders,  and  no  saloon-keeper  should  be  seen 
within  less  than  a hundred  feet  of  his  saloon. 
What  did  he  do  that  for?  He  knew  it  was  the 
mother  of  mobism,  and  I want  to  tell  you  it  is 
the  anarchist;  it  is  the  mother  of  anarchism.  It 


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is  the  mother  of  every  devilment.  The  very  spirit 
of  hell  is  in  that  business,  and  the  sooner  we  get 
it  under,  the  better  it  will  be,  and  the  time  is 
coming  when  the  great  right  arm  of  our  righteous 
nation  shall  lift  itself  in  the  integrity  of  its 
statesmanship  and  its  ballot  and  cast  one  good 
strong  ballot  that  will  make  the  American  flag 
wave  over  a saloonless  nation. 

THE  GLORY  OF  THE  DAWN  * 

^ The  moral  conflict  of  the  ages  is  on;  the  con- 
quest of  humanity  by  its  ancient  and  merciless 
foe,  the  dual  kingdom  of  Bacchus  and  Gambrinus 
on  the  one  side  and  civilized  humanity  on  the 
other.  And  in  that  war  we  have  broken  the  line, 
turned  the  right,  center  and  left  wings  and  cap- 
tured the  trenches  of  the  enemy! 

'Z  The  liquor  traffic  is  on  the  defense  and  in  re- 
treat before  the  moral,  civic,  industrial,  scientific, 
political  and  military  allies  of  the  world.  There 
are  no  neutral  powers ; the  whole  world  is  bellig- 
l/erent  against  a common  foe,  and  John  Barley- 
corn must  die. 

We  have,  as  Abraham  Lincoln  said  of  slavery, 
“we  have  been  temporizing  with  this  evil  long 
enough.”  We  have  been  indicting  the  criminal 
liquor  traffic  long  enough;  we  have  tried,  con- 
demned, convicted  and  sentenced  the  liquor  traffic 
long  enough,  and  now,  in  the  name  of  the  Al- 

* From  an  address  by  Clinton  N.  Howard,  of  Eochester,  N.  T. 


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mighty  Father  and  the  sovereign  American  peo- 
ple, we  demand  the  execution  of  the  criminal — 
at  the  holy  of  holies  in  the  temple  of  the  nation, 
at  sunrise  at  the  next  national  election,  with  the 
President  of  the  United  States  acting  as  high 
sheriff  of  the  day. 

We  are  done  with  temporizing,  we  are  done 
with  toleration,  we  are  done  with  taxation,  we 
are  done  with  regulation,  we  are  done  with  segre- 
gation, nullification  and  all  attempts  at  reforma- 
tion; we  will  recognize  no  flag  of  truce,  we  will 
not  consider  any  terms  of  peace;  we  are  enlisted 
in  a war  of  extermination. 

We  are  against  the  liquor  traffic  without  reser- 
vation; we  stand  for  a dry  town,  a dry  county, 
a dry  State,  a stainless  flag  and  a saloonless  na- 
tion, and  a dry  world.  We  believe  the  liquor 
traffic  ought  to  die,  must  die,  and  will  die  in  this 
generation.  We  are  anti-saloon,  anti-brewery, 
anti-distillery,  anti-organized  traffic  in  rum, 
wholesale  and  retail,  “suds”  and  cocktail.  We 
are  against  the  pocket  peddler,  the  joint,  the 
bootlegger,  the  speak-easy,  the  blind  pig,  the  blind 
tiger,  the  saloon,  the  hotel  bar,  the  high-toned 
cafe,  the  swell  club  buffet,  the  bishop’s  subway, 
brewer,  Beelzebub,  distiller  and  devil! 

In  one  word,  the  saloon  must  go;  the  liquor 
traffic  must  and  shall  be  destroyed. 

The  days  of  King  Alcohol  are  numbered;  the 
whole  civilized  world,  and  Russia,  is  going  dry! 


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Whoever  supposed  that  the  Star  of  the  East  to 
guide  the  wise  men  of  the  twentieth  century 
would  rise  in  “Darkest  Russia,”  of  whom  the 
world  was  wont  to  say,  “Can  any  good  thing 
come  out  of  Russia  ? ’ ’ Come  and  see ! Abraham 
Lincoln  said:  “One  of  the  reasons  for  our  re- 
peated failure  to  settle  the  slavery  question  is 
because  the  enemies  of  that  great  evil  have  con- 
stantly brought  forward  small  cures  for  great 
sores;  plasters  too  small  to  cover  the  wound.” 
The  Czar  of  Russia  put  on  a plaster  that  was 
eight  million,  six  hundred  and  forty  thousand 
miles  square;  two  and  one-half  times  larger  than 
the  United  States  of  America;  a plaster  as  big 
as  the  sore;  a remedy  coextensive  with  the  dis- 
ease ; and  put  one  hundred  and  sixty  million  pas- 
sengers on  the  water  wagon  in  a night.  “Impos- 
sible!” said  the  Prime  Minister;  “we  are  in  this 
business  and  we  can  not  now  get  out;  if  we  give 
up  this  half  billion  dollars  of  revenue  with  the 
war  on,  we  are  lost;  impossible!”  And  the  Czar 
exprest  great  regret  that  his  continued  ill- 
health  made  it  impossible  for  him  to  longer  act 
as  Prime  Minister,  and  exprest  the  hope  that 
his  retirement  would  improve  his  health  and 
make  his  private  life  happy.  “Impossible,”  said 
the  bag-holders,  the  statesmen  who  put  revenue 
above  righteousness  and  mammon  above  man- 
hood; “it  will  impoverish  the  government!” 
And  the  Czar  said,  “Better  impoverish  the  gov- 


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eminent  than  impoverish  my  people.”  “Impos- 
sible!” said  the  venders,  makers  and  poisoners, 
the  “Merchants’  and  Manufacturers’  Associa- 
tion,” the  “Growers’  and  Producers’  Associa- 
tion,” the  “National  Mercantile  Association”; 
“it  will  destroy  the  business  interests  of  Rus- 
sia.” And  the  Czar  said,  “Call  it  no  longer  a 
business;  call  it  an  economic  desolation!” 

The  London  Times  is  moved  to  say,  “Not 
since  China  abrogated  opium  has  the  world  wit- 
nessed anything  like  it.  Russia  has  already  van- 
quished a greater  foe  than  German  arms.  For 
the  first  time  in  history  the  world  is  engaged  in 
a teetotal  war.” 

It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  the  greatest 
^ event  in  the  history  of  the  world  since  the  resur- 
rection of  our  divine  Lord  from  the  dead  is  the 
crucifixion  of  John  Barleycorn  in  Russia. 

A gigantic  government  monopoly  paying  into 
the  public  treasury  a sum  more  than  twice  our 
total  revenue  from  the  liquor  traffic,  one  hundred 
million  dollars  more  than  our  entire  receipts 
from  custom  revenues,  and  more  than  a quarter 
of  the  total  revenues  of  the  nation,  sacrificed  to 
morality  and  efficiency  at  a single  stroke;  an  an- 
nual consumption  of  over  350,000,000  gallons  of 
whisky  dumped  into  the  sea  of  oblivion  in  a 
night;  a quarantine  against  a national  scourge 
“worse  than  war,  pestilence  and  famine”  over 
one-sixth  of  the  habitable  globe;  a national  sur- 


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gical  operation  performed  upon  160,000,000  peo- 
ple and  the  patient  recovered  before  daylight; 
one  standard  of  morals  applied  to  every  inch  of 
territory  under  the  Eussian  flag ; 100,000,000 
bushels  of  grain  in  government  storehouses,  pur- 
chased to  be  made  into  whisky,  baked  into  bread ! 

Glory  to  God  in  the  highest,  and  on  earth — 
Peace  and  Prohibition!  The  crowned  heads  and 
military  commanders  of  the  world  have  come  to 
recognize  that  they  can  not  have  one  without  first 
obtaining  the  other.  Prohibition  has  become  a 
supreme  military  necessity.  Eussia  led  the  way; 
France,  in  recognition  of  that  conviction,  struck 
the  second  blow;  Lloyd  George,  the  most  master- 
ful statesman  of  Great  Britain,  exprest  the 
conscience  of  the  nation  when  he  said,  “Nothing 
but  root  and  branch  measures  are  of  any  avail  in 
dealing  with  this  evil.  If  we  are  to  settle  with 
militarism  we  must  first  of  all  settle  with  drink.” 
The  Kaiser  before  the  war  began  prophesied 
victory  to  that  nation  which  consumed  the  small- 
est quantity  of  alcohol;  and  now  comes  Villa, 
the  half-breed  belligerent  chief  of  the  South, 
promising  that  in  the  event  the  fortunes  of  war 
favor  his  cause,  Mexico  will  be  dry. 

It  is  the  Glory  of  the  Dawn  out  of  the  black- 
ness of  the  world’s  night.  It  was  ever  thus! 
Out  of  the  darkness  came  the  dawn;  out  of  chaos 
came  creation ; Black  Friday  came  three  days  be- 
fore Easter! 


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STATES’  RIGHTS  AND  PROHIBITION* 

The  first  time  I saw  some  of  you,  most  of  you, 
was  when  you  got  yourselves  all  drest  up  in 
blue  and  loaded  yourselves  up  with  guns  and  can- 
non and  put  Old  Glory  at  the  head  of  your 
marching  columns  and  came  swarming  across 
the  Mason  and  Dixon  line  in  order  to  lick  the 
stuffing  out  of  us,  because  we  were  standing  for 
and  claiming  States  ’ rights ! And  we  stood  up 
there  against  your  embattled  line  over-massing 
us  three  and  four  and  five  to  one  on  a hundred 
battlefields,  and  kept  you  at  bay  for  four  years, 
until  we  wore  ourselves  to  an  everlasting  frazzle, 
defending  States’  rights  against  you  fellows 
from  the  North.  You  fellows  up  here  have  been 
fooling  yourselves  and  glorifying  yourselves  and 
planting  laurel  wreaths  for  yourselves  and  writ- 
ing eloquent  eulogies  of  yourselves  every  year, 
because  you  licked  States’  rights  out  of  us  and 
established  national  rights.  Why  have  you  got 
all  these  soldiers’  monuments  spread  all  over 
this  country  north  of  the  Mason  and  Dixon  line? 
Why  do  you  gather  round  them  every  Decora- 
tion Day?  Why  do  you  load  them  with  flowers? 
What  do  you  put  up  these  flannel-mouthed  ora- 
tors for?  Do  you  do  that  every  year  to  honor 
those  dead  martyrs? 

* From  an  address  by  the  Hon.  Sam  Small,  of  Georgia. 


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If  you  put  up  these  monuments  to  commemorate 
the  victories  of  the  Union  Army  for  States’ 
rights,  you  have  got  them  on  the  wrong  terri- 
tory— they  belong  down  my  way.  Why  are  you 
demanding  a hundred  and  sixty  million  dollars  a 
year  out  of  the  National  Treasury  to  pension  all 
these  fellows  from  one  end  of  the  North  to  the 
other  ? Why  have  you  taken  out  of  the  Treasury 
of  the  United  States  since  1865  nearly  five  thou- 
sand million  dollars  and  distributed  it  among 
yourselves  in  pensions  to  your  soldiers  in  blue 
and  their  widows  and  orphans  and  accidental 
wives!  Is  that  to  pay  them  a debt  of  honor  for 
establishing  States’  rights? 

Oh,  no;  we  put  up  our  hands  and  pleaded  for 
States’  rights  to  save  our  slaves,  that  we  had 
bought  originally  from  your  granddaddies.  Your 
great-granddaddies  either  stole  them  or  bartered 
for  them  with  rum  from  Medford  and  Boston, 
and  put  them  in  slave-corrals  until  they  were 
fattened,  and  filled  them  and  filed  their  teeth, 
and  then  sold  them  to  us.  Wlien  you  found  out 
that  you  couldn’t  use  them  in  the  North  to  profit, 
that  in  your  cold,  inhospitable  climate  where  you 
have  the  nine  months’  winter  and  three  months’ 
late  fall,  the  tropical  African  nigger  couldn’t 
get  his  good  hack  warm  and  had  to  lie  around  the 
fire  six  months  in  the  year  feeding  his  face; 
when  you  sharj^,  shrewd  Yankees  saw  that  every- 
thing was  going  in  and  nothing  coming  out,  you 


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said,  “We  have  let  ourselves  in  for  a bad  bar- 
gain and  we  must  get  rid  of  these  fellows,”  and 
you  looked  around  and  down  our  way  and  saw 
us  when  we  weren’t  looking,  and  convinced  us 
that  in  our  warm,  genial  climate,  in  our  sun- 
shiny, flower-perfumed  atmosphere,  where  a man 
can  work  in  his  shirt-sleeves  on  the  first  day  of 
January  as  well  as  on  the  first  of  July,  you  con- 
vinced us  that  the  darkey  would  he  a good  bar- 
gain for  us.  And  we  fell  for  it. 

We  bought  them,  and  paid  you  the  cash, 
C.  0.  D.,  “Come  Ommediately  Down”  before  you 
get  the  darkey.  And  when  you  got  our  money 
safely  in  your  paws  you  shoved  it  down  into 
your  socks  and  then  immediately  got  very  re- 
ligious, and  philanthropic  and  patriotic.  And 
when  there  were  enough  of  you,  you  thought,  to 
do  the  job,  you  loaded  up  yourselves,  came  down 
across  the  Mason  and  Dixon  line  and  licked  the 
stufi&ng  out  of  us  for  having  them,  and  set  them 
free.  We  never  whimpered.  As  Governor  Pat- 
terson said,  “We  took  our  medicine.”  We  were 
dead-game  sports.  We  bet  all  we  had,  and  lost, 
and  then  we  went  to  work  to  make  it  over  again, 
and  glory  be  to  God,  we  have  done  it!  You  have 
got  nothing  on  us  now,  neither  in  prosperity  nor 
patriotism. 

Now  you  have  got  the  liquor  traffic.  And  we 
are  sectionalizing  it,  just  as  you  did  slavery. 
You  drove  the  slavery  all  south  of  the  Mason  and 


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Dixon  line.  Now  we  are  driving  the  liquor  devils 
all  north  of  the  Mason  and  Dixon  line.  In  the 
fourteen  solid  Southern  States,  from  the  Poto- 
mac to  the  Eio  Grande  and  from  the  Ocean  to 
the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  we  have  fewer  government 
licensed  liquor  dealers  to-night  than  you  have  in 
the  city  of  Chicago.  More  than  one-half  of  all 
the  registered  breweries  and  distilleries  and 
dirty,  damnable  saloons  and  doggeries  under  the 
American  flag  anywhere  on  earth  are  in  six 
States  of  the  Union — New  York,  New  Jersey, 
Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  Illinois  and  Wisconsin — 
and  you  notice  every  one  of  them  is  a Northern 
State,  every  one  of  them  this  side  of  the  Mason 
and  Dixon  line.  In  ten  States  of  the  Union  you 
have  got  82  per  cent,  of  all  the  liquor  business 
done  by  the  American  people.  Ain’t  you  proud 
of  it?  Now,  we  have  run  those  devils  almost 
entirely  out  of  the  South.  We  have  served  no- 
tice that  they  have  got  to  get  up  and  get.  We 
would  like  to  run  them  into  the  Atlantic,  but  we 
can’t  get  that  gang  to  take  water. 

You  know,  the  only  thing  that  is  left  us  to  do 
is  to  run  them  across  the  Mason  and  Dixon  line 
upon  you,  and  when  we  get  them  all  up  here, 
then,  one  good  turn  deserves  another  and,  as 
you  came  down  South  and  licked  slavery  out  of 
us,  by  the  grace  of  God  we  will  come  up  here 
and  lick  liquor  out  of  you.  Oh,  but  you  fellows 
down  there  at  Washington  put  up  your  hands 


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and  looked  at  us  Southern  men  and  said,  “Boys, 
surely  you  ain’t  going  back  on  your  ancient 
records?  Surely  you  ain’t  going  to  spit  on  the 
graves  of  your  dead  ancestors,  surely  you  ain’t 
going  to  repudiate  the  doctrines  of  your  great 
leaders  and  statesmen,  are  you?  Come  and  help 
us  save  our  breweries  and  distilleries  and  dirty 
old  doggeries  with  States’  rights.”  And  what 
did  we  say?  We  answered  back  when  we  said, 
“When  we  were  pleading,  fifty,  sixty  years  ago 
for  States’  rights  to  save  our  property,  to  save 
our  constitutional  rights,  to  save  our  States’ 
rights  that  had  been  recognized  from  the  founda- 
tion of  the  government  up  to  then,  what  answer 
did  you  fellows  in  the  North  give  us?  You  said, 
“To  hell  with  States’  rights,”  Don’t  deny  it. 
And  now  when  you  put  up  your  paws  and  holler 
to  us  and  demand  States’  rights  to  save  your 
brewery  and  your  distillery  and  dirty  old  dog- 
gery, we  are  going  to  hand  it  back,  just  like  you 
handed  it  to  us.  “To  hell  with  States’  rights.” 

Oh,  we  learned  our  lesson.  We  know  it  all 
the  way  through  from  Adam  to  Zebadi.  And 
you  can’t  play  that  on  us.  Listen.  When  that 
question  came  up  yonder  in  Washington  in  De- 
cember on  the  floor  of  Congress,  I turned  away 
from  these  Northern  men  and  their  whining  and 
begging  and  pleading  for  States’  rights.  I 
turned  my  eyes  from  them  in  disgust  and  I 
looked  down  to  South  Carolina,  the  all-breeding 


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place  of  States’  rights,  where  they  were  born, 
bred  and  buttered.  Where  they  were  wet-nursed 
and  brought  up  by  John  C.  Calhoun.  I looked  to 
South  Carolina  where  the  nullification  was  en- 
acted. I looked  to  South  Carolina  that  sent  92 
per  cent,  of  her  grown  white  men  into  the  Con- 
federate Army  and  62  per  cent,  of  them  died  on 
the  battlefield  without  ever  marching  on.  I 
looked  to  South  Carolina  and  saw  every  member 
of  Congress  from  South  Carolina  stand  up  in 
his  manhood  that  night  and  vote  solidly  for  na- 
tional Prohibition. 

I looked  to  Tennessee,  my  native  State,  the 
State  of  Andrew  Jackson  and  James  K.  Polk 
and  Andrew  Johnson,  President  of  the  United 
States.  I looked  to  the  State  of  Tennessee, 
where  my  father  put  on  his  uniform  of  gray, 
took  his  sword  in  hand  and  marched  out  at  the 
head  of  the  regiment  and  stayed  with  you  fel- 
lows to  the  bloody  finish  on  a hundred  fields  of 
battle,  and  I saw  every  Congressman  from  Ten- 
nessee, every  one  of  them  but  two — Democrats 
at  that — stand  up  and  vote  solidly  for  national 
Prohibition. 

I looked  to  Arkansas  and  I saw  every  member 
of  Congress  from  Arkansas,  not  a man  missing 
or  dodging  or  away,  vote  for  national  Prohibition, 
and  not  one  of  them  voting  for  States’  rights  for 
the  liquor  traffic. 

I saw  that  entire  list  of  Southern  Congress- 


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men,  a hundred  and  sixty-two  strong,  with  82 
per  cent,  of  them  voting  for  national  Prohibition 
and  against  the  doctrine,  the  dastard  doctrine, 
of  States’  rights  for  the  liquor  traffic.  And  I 
say  to  you,  repeating,  reinforcing  and  seconding 
what  Governor  Patterson  has  said,  what  he  has 
already  intimated  to  you,  that  you  shan’t  go 
hack  now  fifty  years  and  dig  up  from  under  the 
old  apple  tree  at  Appomattox  that  doctrine  that 
was  buried  in  the  blood  of  six  hundred  thousand 
men  from  Donaldson  by  Vicksburg  back  to  Get- 
tysburg by  Appomattox  and  make  it  a coat  of 
mail  to  protect  the  dirty,  damnable  breweries, 
distilleries  and  doggeries  of  the  North. 

We  will  meet  you.  We  will  meet  you  at  the 
Capitol,  and  we  will  fight  it  out.  And  we  are 
going  to  win  by  the  grace  of  God.  And  no  fact 
in  American  history  that  is  not  written  in  al- 
ready in  indelible  characters  is  to  be  considered 
to-night  as  more  certain  than  that  we  are  going 
to  write  the  census  of  1920  for  a hundred  and 
ten  million  American  men,  women  and  children, 
without  recording  a single,  damnable  brewery, 
distillery  or  doggery  anywhere  under  the  Ameri- 
can flag.  And  when  that  great  day  of  deliver- 
ance comes,  when  we  gather  from  every  State 
and  every  quarter  of  this  glorious  Republic  yon- 
der at  the  front  of  the  national  Capitol  and  look 
up  with  the  sovereign  right  of  the  American 
people  and  command  Liberty  on  her  high  pedes- 


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tal  on  the  summit  of  that  dome  to  open  her 
brazen  lips  and  declare  to  God,  to  humanity  at 
large,  that  America,  the  great  republic  of  Wash- 
ington and  Lincoln,  has  been  redeemed  and 
emancipated  from  this  curse,  then  we  will  march 
down  the  slope  of  the  capitol  and  somewhere 
between  the  great  dynamic  powerhouse  of  Amer- 
ican legislation  and  the  sacred  shrines  of  George 
Washington  and  Abraham  Lincoln,  on  a great 
red  cross  we  will  erect  the  mighty  column  of 
our  victory,  composed  of  forty-eight  white  stones 
from  as  many  sovereign  States,  piled  up  one 
upon  the  other,  and  on  its  exalted  capital  we  will 
enshrine  for  our  posterity  the  figure  of  the 
Mother  of  America,  the  mother  of  the  great  cru- 
sade that  started  this  movement  away  back  yon- 
der in  ’72. 

And  on  each  of  the  four  arms  of  that  great 
red  cross  of  our  salvation  we  will  plant  the  fig- 
ures in  imperishable  bonds  of  the  four  great 
evangelists  of  this  supreme  emancipation.  On 
the  arm  that  reaches  toward  the  North  and  fac- 
ing the  North  we  will  put  the  effigy  of  the  sturdy, 
indomitable  Neal  Dow.  On  the  arm  to  the  East  and 
facing  it,  we  will  put  the  figure  of  our  beloved 
founder  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League,  Howard  Eus- 
sell,  of  Ohio.  On  the  other  arm  that  reaches  to  the 
great  West,  we  will  put  the  stalwart  figure  of 
that  heroic  first  martyr  in  the  politics  of  Amer- 
ica, John  P.  St.  John,  of  Kansas.  And  on  the  arm 


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that  comes  down  into  our  own  beloved  Southland, 
we  will  put  the  figure  of  that  unparalleled,  irre- 
proachable and  valiant  pioneer  for  Southern  Pro- 
hibition, Sam  P.  Jones,  of  Georgia.  Then,  we 
will  gather  together,  my  brethren,  sing  the  songs 
of  our  dedication,  commit  that  monument  to  the 
keeping  of  our  posterity,  and  go  to  our  homes 
with  our  faces  toward  the  judgment  day  of  God, 
singing  together,  “Hallelujah,  ’tis  done,  we  be- 
lieve on  the  Son,  we  are  saved  as  a nation  by 
the  Crucified  One.” 

THE  SHAME  OF  IT  ALL  * 

What  patriotic  American  is  there  to-day  but 
proudly  asserts  his  nation  possesses  the  acme 
of  civilization  and  is  in  the  van  of  all  progress; 
and  that,  cryptic  in  our  humanity,  is  the  best  of 
all  time  and  clime.  And  quite  rightly  so.  Yet 
when  I consider  that  other  peoples,  with  less  op- 
portunity, poorer  enlightenment,  and  miserable 
environment  have  forged  ahead  of  us  in  this 
vital  question;  that  heathen  Sparta,  as  Plato 
asserted,  banished  all  drunkenness  and  debauch- 
ery from  her  territory;  that  the  ancient  Ger- 
mans, according  to  Froude,  were  admired  by 
Caesar  for  “the  abstinence  from  wine”;  that 
the  infidel  Mohammedans  have  a positive  general 
law  adjuring  all  liquor  and  drunkenness — aye, 

* Proin  an  address  by  Dr.  Homer  W.  Tope,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

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have  had  it  since  the  days  of  Mahomet;  that  be- 
nighted Russia  has  utterly  banished  liquor  from 
her  territories;  that  Iceland  has  utterly  cast  it 
out — when  these  things  come  before  me  I must 
say  with  Shakespeare : 

“Reproach  and  everlasting  shame 
Sits  mocking  in  our  plumes.” 

This  Moloch  of  the  liquor  traffic  has  burdened 
our  prosperity  with  a weight  of  wo  and  crippled 
the  finances  of  our  people  with  a burden  of  debt 
for  which  there  is  no  return  save  a Dead  Sea  of 
desolation.  It  has  been  estimated  that  the  an- 
nual liquor  bill  of  our  country  is  two  and  a half 
billions  of  dollars.  When  we  subtract  from  this 
the  three  hundred  and  thirty-five  million  in  li- 
cense and  federal  taxes,  the  one  hundred  and  six 
million  to  the  farmers,  there  still  totals  a sum 
of  over  two  billions  of  dollars — the  cost  of  the 
traffic  per  year.  The  human  mind  staggers  in 
the  contemplation  of  such  a figure.  Our  thought 
can  not  grasp  it  in  the  abstract.  To  gain  a 
slight  insight  we  must  enter  into  comparison. 

All  the  wheat  raised  in  this  country  per  year 
amounts  to  six  hundred  and  twenty-one  millions 
of  dollars,  and  coal  raised  from  the  earth  in  a 
year,  five  hundred  and  fifty-four  millions;  the 
iron,  four  hundred  and  nineteen  millions;  the 
copper,  two  hundred  millions;  the  gold  and  sil- 
ver, one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  millions,  or 


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a sum  total  of  one  billion,  nine  hundred  and 
twenty  million.  And  yet  our  annual  liquor  bill, 
' with  all  returns  subtracted,  is  twenty-eight  mil- 
* ' lion  dollars  more  than  this  stupendous  sum. 

And  what  is  our  return  from  it  all?  What  is 
the  receipt  of  values  for  such  an  expenditure? 
Nothing  but  a dead  loss  in  humanity’s  ruin, 
wrecked  homes,  debauched  youth,  crime,  insan- 
ity and  death.  Homer  Folk  says  that  fully  30 
per  cent,  of  the  men  and  10  per  cent,  of  the 
, women  admitted  into  our  State  hospitals  for  the 
\ insane  are  suffering  from  conditions  due  directly 
or  indirectly  to  the  liquor  habit.  The  estimate  is 
too  small.  Just  lately  I took  up  the  report  of 
our  State  Hospital  at  Danville  for  the  last  year 
and  scanning  the  list  of  cases  found  that  fully 
60  per  cent,  of  all  cases  to  which  assignable 
cause  is  given  is,  directly  or  indirectly,  liquor. 

It  has  filled  our  jails  and  penitentiaries  to 
overflowing  with  criminals  who  would  be  living 
honest,  useful  lives  to-day  were  it  not  for  the 
power  of  rum.  In  the  report  of  Allegheny 
County  Workhouse  for  1913,  3,798  cases  were 
recorded  of  which  3,482  were  due  to  liquor. 
Ninety-one  out  of  every  one  hundred  there  be- 
cause of  drink.  I think  the  thing  that  touched 
my  heart  most  of  late  was  that  pitiable  plea  of 
last  July  sent  to  our  legislature  from  1,000  of 
the  inmates  of  our  Eastern  Pentitentiary,  beg- 
ging the  public  to  abolish  the  liquor  traffic  that 


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they  might  have  a chance  to  reform  when  freed. 

And  besides  all  this,  it  has  shortened  and 
blasted  the  lives  of  little  children  with  sorrow, 
weakness,  physical  disability  and  death. 

Oh,  the  shame  of  such  a Lucifer  as  this,  sup- 
ported and  held  in  power  by  Christian  people! 
Like  a hungry  wolf,  the  traffic  has  dogged  the 
feet  of  the  helpless  and  innocent  and  rent  the 
breast  of  affection.  With  demoniacal  fingers  it 
has  written  disease  and  imbecility  on  the  rugged 
frame  of  manhood,  insanity  on  the  brow  of 
thought,  profanity  on  the  lips  of  eloquence,  ig- 
nominy on  the  form  of  virtue,  unsightliness  on 
the  countenance  of  beauty,  and  shame,  ruin  and 
death  on  the  temple  of  freedom. 


THE  MIGHTY  MOMENTUM  OF  PROHIBITION  * 

Those  trained  and  unexcelled  students  of  the 
times,  the  newspaper  men  of  the  country,  are 
practically  unanimous  in  the  opinion  that  Pro- 
hibition, whether  right  or  wrong,  is  coming,  and 
that  swiftly. 

Artists  now  recognize  that  beer  stands  for  in- 
tellectual desolation ; scientists  know  that  it 
stands  for  inefficiency;  literature  no  longer  paints 
it  in  false  colors,  but  holds  it  up  in  all  its  naked 
brutality  to  the  scorn  of  the  people. 

* From  an  address  by  Dr.  Clarence  True  Wilson,  of  Washington, 

D.  C. 


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The  headless,  clumsy  stupidity  of  our  foes  has 
delivered  them  into  our  hands.  The  beer  men 
fight  the  whisky  men  and  the  whisky  men  fight 
the  beer  men.  Both  of  them  constantly  expose 
the  nakedness  of  their  corruption.  They  ought 
to  be  on  their  knees,  begging  for  life.  Instead, 
they  strut  around  with  clubs  in  their  hands, 
threatening  decent  people,  bull-dozing  the  church 
and  the  home,  dictating  to  politics  and  business. 
They  openly  try  to  arouse  dissension  between 
foreign-born  citizens  and  those  of  native  birth. 
Secretly  they  seek  to  array  Catholics  against 
Protestants  and  promote  a religious  war.  They 
stir  the  people  to  bitter  anger  by  their  efforts 
to  corrupt  womanhood  and  make  a prey  of  child- 
hood. 

This  high  treason  to  America  should  have  been 
seized  red-handed  generations  ago.  It  was  a 
great  mistake  to  suffer  such  a commercialized 
outrage  to  be  accepted  by  the  years  as  they 
elapsed,  but  we  have  now  awakened  to  the  fact 
that  each  minute  of  the  precious  future  which 
passes  without  witnessing  the  death  of  John 
Barleycorn  thereby  becomes  an  accomplice  and 
endorser  of  the  crime.  Even  yet  it  is  ours  to 
say  that  this  calamity  shall  not  become  an  ac- 
complished fact.  We  must  stand  shoulder  to 
shoulder,  individually  and  as  organizations.  We 
must  make  no  mistake  in  our  plans.  We  must 
resent  evasion,  decline  to  tolerate  quibbles.  The 


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issue  is  joined.  John  Barleycorn  must  die,  and 
to  that  end  we  pledge  the  last  full  measure  of 
devotion. 

We  believe  that  the  American  saloon  and  all 
that  it  stands  for,  the  manufacture  and  sale  of 
intoxicating  liquors  for  beverage  purposes,  is 
fundamentally  wrong,  detrimental  to  the  welfare 
of  the  people  and  subversive  of  good  government. 
That  it  is  licensed  for  a price  is  the  great  moral 
crime  of  the  nineteenth  and  twentieth  centuries. 
That  license  system,  whether  high  or  low,  is  a 
blighting  sell-out  of  moral  conscience  for  revenue 
only.  The  saloon  anywhere  and  the  liquor  traffic 
everywhere  is  opposed  to  the  work  that  the 
Church  of  Christ  is  doing,  and  the  most  essen- 
tial work  before  the  church  is  to  destroy  this 
great  destroyer. 

SEEING  THE  SALOON  AS  IT  IS ! * 

Just  the  other  day  a big  brewer  decided  that 
he  would  quit  and  put  his  brewery  into  a pack- 
ing plant.  We  asked  him  why.  He  said:  “I 
see  the  avalanche  coming  and  I am  going  to  get 
out  from  under.”  Once  in  a while  they  have  a 
little  vision,  and  I am  glad  they  have.  It  re- 
minds us  of  the  story  of  the  man  who  sued  an- 
other for  slander  and  when  they  were  in  court 
and  it  developed  that  the  man  had  called  this 

* From  an  address  by  Florence  D.  Eicbards,  of  Columbus,  Ohio. 


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other  a vile  name,  the  attorney  for  the  defend- 
ant said:  “So  this  man  slandered  you?”  “Yes, 
he  did.”  “What  did  he  do?”  “He  called  me  a 
vile  name.”  “What  did  he  call  you?”  “He 
called  me  a rhinoceros,”  He  said:  “When 
did  he  call  you  this?”  “He  called  me  this  three 
years  ago.”  “Why  in  the  world  didn’t  you  sue 
him  then?”  “Why,  bless  your  heart,”  he  said, 
“I  never  saw  a rhinoceros  until  last  week.” 
Now,  -some  of  these  people  are  just  seeing  the 
liquor  traffic  as  they  never  saw  it  before.  They 
did  not  know  how  much  they  ought  to  feel 
against  it  till  they  had  seen  it,  but  they  have 
their  eyes  open  now.  I don’t  know  but  they 
have  got  a clearer  vision  than  some  of  us  who 
have  been  working  all  these  years. 


Dr.  Kramer  was  announced  to  speak  in  one  of 
the  big  halls  of  Cincinnati.  Our  superintendent 
of  medical  temperance  wrote  me  and  said: 
“Come  over.  I want  you  to  see  and  hear  Dr. 
Kramer.”  So  I went.  I was  to  speak  on  Sun- 
day. I went  early  Saturday  to  get  there  in  good 
time  for  his  speech,  and  he  gave  us  a great  lec- 
ture on  alcohol.  He  commenced  at  the  very  be- 
ginning. He  had  slides  and  screen,  lantern,  and 
things  of  that  sort.  He  gave  us  a great  speech; 
but  this  is  what  he  said  to  the  great  doctors 
that  were  there — doctors  of  divinity  and  doctors 


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of  medicine — and  we  had  a great  crowd  of  peo- 
ple in  that  wicked  city  of  Cincinnati  to  hear  Dr, 
Kramer  on  alcohol  alone.  When  he  got  pretty 
nearly  through  he  turned  to  the  doctors  of  medi- 
cine and  he  said  to  them:  “Doctors,  brothers,  I 
want  to  say  to  you  that  in  case  of  pneumonia  or 
typhoid  fever  never  give  a patient  alcoholic  stim- 
ulants unless  you  want  that  patient  to  die.”  Dr. 
Kramer  also  said  to  that  great  concourse  of 
people:  “Do  you  know  why  your  city  did  not 
get  a Federal  Reserve  Bank  when  Secretary 
McAdoo  and  his  commission  were  here  trying  to 
locate  one?  They  wanted  to  put  one  in  the 
biggest  city  of  Ohio.  Why  didn’t  you  get  it?” 
Then  he  pulled  out  a piece  of  paper  and  he  read : 
“This  is  the  reason.  Now  this  is  the  report,  not 
mine,  hut  the  report  of  the  commission.  ‘We  find 
that  over  40  per  cent,  of  the  wealth  of  this  city 
is  tied  up  in  too  uncertain  an  enterprise;  or,  in 
other  words,  the  liquid  assets  of  Cincinnati  are 
entirely  too  great  for  us,  the  Government,  to  risk 
a Federal  Reserve  Bank  in  their  hands.’  What 
do  you  think  of  that?” 


Molly  and  Heb  Vote 

It  gives  us,  too,  a great  promise  that  the 
women  all  over  the  United  States  are  coming 
into  their  own.  Justice  is  coming  upon  us  after 
a while  and  we  are  going  to  walk  down  with  you, 


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brothers,  to  the  ballot  box  and  remember,  no 
force  used.  You  know  what  they  have  been  do- 
ing in  Illinois,  don’t  you?  Let  me  tell  you.  One 
of  our  women  wrote  a little  article  there.  She 
wrote  a parody  on  “Mary  Had  a Little  Lamb.” 
Some  of  you  are  as  old  as  I am — of  course  I am 
not  going  to  tell  you  how  old  that  is.  Why,  I 
studied  oratory  in  an  old  country  schoolhouse 
on  “Mary  Had  a Little  Lamb.”  But  that  lady 
wrote  this  little  article.  It  has  been  going  the 
rounds  of  the  press,  but  what  has  astonished  me 
more  than  anything  else  was  that  it  was  picked 
up  by  the  Brewers’  Journal  and  printed,  after  a 
comment  about  the  women  and  how  they  had 
voted  at  the  last  election,  and  told  them  how  the 
liquor  interest  must  come  out  and  fight  suffrage 
in  Massachusetts  and  New  York  and  Pennsyl- 
vania this  year,  because  they  were  to  vote  on  it 
and  they  said:  “You  must  pour  your  money 
into  these  States  to  defeat  it.”  “Now,  this  is 
going  the  rounds  of  the  press,”  said  the  Journal, 
and  I want  to  get  it  out. 

“Mary  had  a little  vote, 

That  roamed  the  State  about. 

And  everywhere  that  vote  got  in, 

John  Barleycorn  got  out. 

‘Now,  what  makes  John  hate  Mary  so?’ 

Miss  Anti,  wondering,  asks. 

Oh,  Mary  is  his  greatest  foe. 

She  empties  all  his  casks. 

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How  shocking!  Here  is  Anti-dry, 
One  point  agreed  upon, 

For  everywhere  that  Mary  votes. 

She  gives  a shock  to  John. 

Now,  what  makes  Mary  hate  John  so. 
Why  does  she  treat  him  thus! 

Oh,  Mary  loves  the  boys,  you  know. 
The  reason’s  obvious. 

Yes,  Mary  had  a little  vote. 

Well  used,  without  a doubt. 

For  when  returns  came  rolling  in, 
John  Barleycorn  rolled  out.” 


WHAT  AILS  KANSAS? 

The  liquor  interests  are  asking  what  ails  Kan- 
sas. Nothing  ails  Kansas.  Not  even  the  state- 
ments made  by  the  dispensers  of  booze  in  other 
States  hurt  Kansas.  It  is  truly  marvelous  that 
we  who  live  in  this  dry  State  have  not  experi- 
enced the  blighting  results  of  Prohibition  so 
beautifully  pictured  by  those  who  are  lined  up 
on  the  side  of  the  brewers  and  distillers.  It  is 
passing  strange  that  the  men  who  fight  Prohibi- 
tion in  Kansas  live  in  other  States.  An  Ohio 
newspaper  says  that  the  taxable  property  in 
Kansas  decreased  $5,000,000  last  year  and  that 
there  has  been  no  increase  in  population,  and 

* From  an  address  by  Former  Governor  George  H.  Hodges. 

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that  poor  old  Kansas  is  in  the  throes  of  com- 
mercial despondency  and  is  practically  busted. 
These  statements  are  about  as  near  the  truth  as 
the  dispensers  of  the  “wife-beating  joy-water” 
ever  get. 

The  facts  are  that  in  1913  we  experienced  the 
worst  drouth  ever  known.  Crops  burned  up,  feed 
was  shipped  into  the  State  and  cattle  were 
shipped  out  of  the  State,  Personal  property  did 
decrease  for  the  reason  given,  but  we  increased 
our  population  sixteen  and  one-half  thousand 
that  dry  year.  We  had  $265,700,000  worth  of  stock 
that  we  managed  to  water  and  worried  along 
with.  The  farm  products  totalled  $241,500,000 
that  season  of  blighting  drouth,  and  on  Septem- 
ber first  of  the  same  year  our  banks  had  $207,- 
610,000  in  cash  in  their  vaults.  Poor  old  drouth- 
stricken  Kansas,  how  she  does  suffer,  on  paper! 

If  the  1,700,000  Kansans  drank  the  same 
amount  of  liquor  that  the  same  number  of  men 
in  other  States  do,  we  would  spend  $34,000,000 
more  for  liquor  than  we  do.  Maybe  that  is  one 
of  the  reasons  why  we  so  readily  responded  to 
the  pitiful  appeal  of  the  starving  Belgians,  and 
sent  them  62,000  barrels  of  our  best  flour. 

The  bonded  indebtedness  of  this  wo-begone 
State  is  only  $159,000,  less  than  10  cents  each, 
for  every  person  in  Kansas;  and  over  half  of 
this  amount  is  already  collected  and  in  the  State 
Treasury  waiting  the  maturity  of  the  bond.  The 


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people  are  groaning  under  our  terrific  State  tax 
which  in  1912  (the  statistics  of  which  I have  in 
hand)  amounted  to  less  than  .036  an  acre  on  an 
average,  not  including  improvements. 

The  direct  results  of  the  saloon  are  paupers, 
imbeciles,  insane  and  convicts.  Kansas  has  one 
feeble-minded  person  for  every  3,400  self-pos- 
sest  citizens.  Kansas  has  one  insane  for  every 
570  sane.  Kansas  has  one  man  in  the  peniten- 
tiary for  every  2,250,  and  while  Kansas  sends 
men  to  prison  for  selling  booze,  other  States  pat 
them  on  the  back  and  elevate  them  to  positions 
of  responsibility.  Kansas  has  only  2 per  cent, 
of  illiteracy.  She  has  a death-rate  of  only  ten 
to  1,000,  a prison  population  of  only  740,  of 
whom  40  per  cent,  were  non-residents  of  the 
State.  Our  bank  deposits  have  increased  in  the 
I last  ten  years,  from  $100,000,000  to  $230,000,000. 

^ Twenty-eight  counties  did  not  have  a jail  pris- 
oner during  all  of  1914.  Forty-eight  counties 
did  not  send  a person  to  the  penitentiary  that 
year.  Seventy-eight  counties  did  not  have  an 
insane  patient  last  year.  Twelve  counties  have 
not  called  a jury  to  try  a criminal  case  in  years. 
Twenty  counties  do  not  have  a prisoner  in  the 
penitentiary.  Eighteen  counties  have  no  poor- 
farms.  Thirty-five  counties  have  no  use  for  poor- 
farms  because  they  did  not  have  a single  indi- 
gent in  their  counties  last  year.  "We  had  but 
fourteen  children  paupers  cared  for  by  the  State 


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in  1914.  Alcoholic  insanity  has  decreased  from 
11  per  cent,  to  3 per  cent,  in  the  past  fifteen 
years,  and  contrary  to  the  statements  of  the 
distillers’  statistician,  Mr.  Fox,  Kansas  has  a 
less  death-rate  for  homicide,  violent  accidents, 
kidney  and  liver  diseases,  than  those  of  other 


States  in  this  registration  era. 

Compare 
Kansas : 

California,  a health 

resort, 

California 

Kansas 

110 

Accidents  and  homicides 

56 

20 

Cirrhosis  of  the  liver 

7 

30 

Suicides 

10 

92 

Bright’s  disease 

55 

101 

Pneumonia 

46 

These  are  the  rates  of  death  per  100,000  peo- 
ple and  certified  to  by  the  Secretary  of  our 
State  Board  of  Health. 

The  bank  deposits  of  Kansas  equal  $135  for 
each  of  its  citizens,  while  the  per  capita  wealth 
reached  the  enormous  average  of  $2,000  each. 
We  have  more  children  in  school,  a far  greater 
number  of  college  students,  less  illiteracy,  in- 
sanity, imbecility,  pauperism,  penal  population, 
and  State  taxes  in  proportion  to  our  population 
than  any  other  State  in  the  Union. 


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THE  PASSING  OF  THE  SALOON  * 

To  the  saloon  democracy  says,  “Depart  from 
me ; I never  knew  you.  ’ ’ 

For  this  let  us  be  duly  thankful,  that  an  evil 
once  removed  from  society  never  appears  again 
in  history.  Shove  it  out  of  the  door  and  it  can’t 
fly  back  in  again  by  the  window.  When  the  race 
incarnates  itself  in  one  great  man  and  that  man 
backs  off  the  map  an  injustice,  the  race  rests 
from  its  labors  and  reaps  the  rewards  of  con- 
quest. 

We  are  still,  all  of  us,  living  in  just  a little 
more  comfort,  because  John  Bright,  that  majes- 
tic humanitarian,  fought  to  their  repeal  the  in- 
iquitous corn  laws.  Elizabeth  Fry,  in  her  ging- 
ham apron,  walking  like  an  angel  amidst  the 
demons  of  Newgate  prison,  removed  from  the 
jails  of  the  civilized  world  for  all  time  a bloody 
score  of  inhumanities.  Wilberforce  in  England, 
O’Connell  in  Ireland,  L’Ouverture  in  San  Do- 
mingo, Phillips  and  Garrison  in  America,  clasped 
hands  around  the  globe  and  made  the  institu- 
tion of  chattel  slavery  at  one  with  Nineveh  and 
Tyre. 

The  Magna  Charta,  wrenched  from  the  re- 
luctant hand  of  King  John,  opened  the  debtors’ 
prisons  and  swelled  the  judgment  seat  from  one 

* From  an  address  by  T.  Alex  Cairns,  of  New  Jersey. 


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autocrat  to  a jury  of  twelve  peers.  Feudalism, 
with  the  robber  baron  on  top  and  the  plundered 
serf  beneath,  was  shot  from  its  castle,  never  to 
return,  by  the  first  cannon-ball  ever  invented. 

And  the  saloon,  the  devil’s  headquarters  on 
earth,  when  demolished  at  the  close  of  this,  our 
final  siege,  and  when  the  Prince  of  Darkness 
capitulates  to  the  Prince  of  Peace,  shall  never 
again  rear  its  frowning  head  to  insult  the  light 
and  sunshine  of  American  liberty. 

Social  ills  generally  have  a habit  of  shaking 
themselves  down  and  down  through  the  various 
strata  of  society  till  at  last  they  rest  on  the 
pathetic  backs  of  children. 

Victor  Hugo  says,  “He  who  has  seen  the 
misery  of  man  only  has  seen  nothing;  he  must 
see  the  misery  of  woman;  he  who  has  seen  the 
misery  of  woman  only  has  seen  nothing ; he  must 
see  the  misery  of  childhood.” 

The  father  drinks  and  the  light  of  intellect  is 
snuffed  out  in  the  brain  of  the  child.  The  father 
drinks  and’  the  child  shivers  through  the  streets 
in  the  rags  of  penury.  The  father  drinks  and 
the  child,  terror-curst,  cowers  and  cringes  in  the 
corner.  The  father  drinks  and  the  inquisition 
lives  again  in  the  hell-shocking  cruelties  to  the 
child.  The  father  drinks  and  the  child  is  hurled 
into  the  tartarus  of  the  mill  where  the  cry  of  its 
torment  ascendeth  up  forever  and  ever.  The 


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' father  drinks  and  the  child  exchanges  the  carol 
I and  cheer  of  a heaven-tasting  home  for  a damp, 
/ vermin-ridden,  unaired,  unlighted,  unsunheamed 
attic  of  a tenement.  The  father  drinks  and  the 
dread  syphilis  of  Delilah,  caught  in  the  den  of 
^ the  debauchee,  crawls  like  a gehenna  viper  into 
the  blood  of  the  child.  The  father  drinks  and 
the  child,  imbruted  from  cradlehood,  hangs  its 
head  in  obsequious  shame  before  its  companions. 
The  father  drinks  and  the  child’s  dimpled  fin- 
gers, prest  against  the  window-pane,  grow  big 
to  grasp  the  assassin  tools  of  crime.  The  father 
drinks  and  the  child,  robbed  of  its  heritage, 
never  hears  that  angel  whispered  melody,  “Suf- 
fer the  little  children  to  come  unto  Me.”  The 
father  drinks  and  there  is  written  in  the  black 
letters  of  despair  across  the  scroll  of  the  years 
the  humanity-shaming  tragedy  of  the  child. 

“Lord  God  of  Hosts,  be  with  us  yet, 

Lest  we  forget,  lest  we  forget.” 

If  the  child  could  but  stand  up  in  the  judg- 
ment seat  of  some  avenging  Nemesis  and  hurl 
its  maledictions  at  the  social  order  and  its  red- 
handed  agent,  the  saloon  on  the  corner,  all  the 
woes  of  Tyre  and  Sidon  were  moderate  in  com- 
parison with  the  vengeance-born  anathemas  that 
would  strike  the  world  with  livid-cheeked  terror. 


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PROHIBITION  IN  HARMONY  WITH  FEDERAL 
CONSTITUTION  * 

Here  we  have  come  to  a stand.  On  this 
ground  we  fight.  For  us  nice  and  cunning  dis- 
tinctions will  no  longer  do.  Of  the  cavil  and 
the  evasions  of  the  politician  we  have  had 
enough.  We  want  the  action  of  the  statesmen. 
We  will  follow  cockades  no  longer.  We  will 
listen  to  shibboleths  no  more.  Henceforth  we 
will  know  this  cause  only.  For  it,  whenever 
necessary,  men  shall  be  set  aside  and  parties 
abandoned.  Subterfuge  and  indirection  for  us 
are  ended.  From  this  hour  on  we  battle  up- 
ward and  onward,  straight,  “toward  the  mark  of 
our  high  calling” — a new  national  emancipation 
— battle  upward  and  onward  until  the  closed 
sepulcher  of  the  centuries  opens  and  receives 
from  our  hands  another  new-dead  evil.  For  we 
are  here  highly  resolved  that  the  past’s  dear 
dead  shall  not  have  died  in  vain;  that  our  pos- 
terity shall  be  disenthralled,  and  that  this  Re- 
public under  God  shall  have  another,  a newer 
and  more  virile,  birth  of  freedom. 

To  the  consummation  of  this  resolve  we  here 
dedicate  ourselves  and  “pledge  our  fortunes,  onr 
lives  and  our  sacred  honor.”  By  the  memories 

* From  an  address  by  Former  Governor  J.  Frank  Hanly,  of 
Indiana. 


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of  the  past,  by  the  hopes  of  the  future,  we 
swear  I As  God  bears  us  witness,  we  swear! 

It  has  been  said  that  the  thing  we  seek — an 
amendment  to  the  national  constitution  prohibit- 
ing throughout  the  United  States  the  manufac- 
ture, sale,  importation,  exportation  and  trans- 
portation of  intoxicating  liquors  to  be  used  as  a 
beverage — is  contrary  to  the  genius  and  the 
spirit  of  our  Government,  as  the  constitution 
gives  only  limited  powers  to  the  national  govern- 
ment, leaving  the  regulation  of  the  conduct  be- 
tween man  and  man  to  the  authority  of  the 
States.  This  I deny.  I believe  in  the  Federal 
Constitution,  believe  in  it  profoundly.  Under  its 
divided  and  separate  powers  and  its  liberty- 
giving and  freedom-protecting  provisions,  my 
father  and  my  father’s  father  lived  and  loved 
and  died.  Under  them  I myself  have  lived  and 
wrought  for  half  a century.  Beneath  them  my 
children  were  born,  and  one  has  grown  to  woman- 
hood’s high  estate.  Five  times  I have  solemnly 
sworn  to  preserve,  protect  and  defend  it,  and  I 
would  not  change  in  the  slightest  measure  a 
single  one  of  its  great  fundamental  provisions. 
I want  that  they  shall  stand  forever.  If  I 
thought  this  proposed  amendment  affected  or  im- 
paired any  one  of  them,  I would  oppose  its  adop- 
tion, much  as  my  heart  is  set  upon  the  abolition  of 
this  traffic.  For  I believe  these — each  and  every 
one — to  be  essential  to  the  principles  of  free 


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and  stable  government  and  to  human  liberty  it- 
self. But  none  of  them  will  be  affected  by  this 
amendment.  The  fundamentals  of  the  Federal 
constitution — the  principles  that  involve  the 
genius  and  the  spirit  of  our  governmental  in- 
stitutions— as  I conceive  them,  are: 

First.  Its  representative  or  republican  char- 
acter. 

Second.  Its  trinity  of  departments  with  their 
coordinate  and  independent  powers. 

Third.  Its  dual  form,  or  system  of  separate 
sovereign  states  within  a sovereign  whole. 

Fourth.  The  authority  of  the  judiciary  to  in- 
terpret the  constitution  and  decide  the  constitu- 
tionality of  laws,  state  and  national. 

These  are  the  fundamentals  of  the  great  char- 
ter. They  are  of  the  very  essence  of  the  com- 
pact. They  go  to  the  core  and  heart  of  the 
whole  system.  They  run  through  it  all.  They 
can  not  be  altered  without  changing  the  form 
and  genius  of  the  government  itself.  All  else  is 
but  subsidiary  and  incidental,  a matter  of  detail 
and  of  method  for  the  attainment  of  these. 

But  with  this  amendment  adopted  all  these 
would  remain  untouched.  The  government  would 
still  be  representative  and  republican  in  charac- 
ter. Its  dual  form  would  remain  unimpaired ; its 
trinity  of  independent  departments  intact.  The 
courts  of  the  land  would  still  have  authority  to 
interpret  the  constitution  and  power  to  pass  upon 


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the  validity  of  laws,  both  state  and  federal. 
The  genius  and  the  spirit  of  our  political  hi- 
stitutions  would  remain  not  only  unimpaired,  but 
buttre.ssed  and  strengthened  and  purified  and 
ennobled  by  the  elimination  of  an  evil  national 
in  extent,  corrupting  in  its  influence  upon  gov- 
ernment and  destructive  in  its  effect  upon  the 
efficiency — physical,  mental  and  moral — of  a 
whole  people. 

To  inhibit  such  an  evil  is  clearly  in  keeping 
with  the  genius  of  American  institutions  and  in 
accord  with  the  highest  purposes  of  free  govern- 
ment. 


THE  WORLD  MOVEMENT  * 

The  last  stand  of  the  liquor  interests,  both  in 
this  country  and  in  the  other  countries  of  the 
world,  has  been  made  on  the  superficial,  mis- 
chievous sophistry  that  the  liquor  problem  is 
purely  an  economic  and  political  problem,  and 
as  such  has  no  place  in  the  pulpit  or  in  the 
teachings  and  activities  of  the  Christian  Church. 
Even  some  churches  in  this  enlightened  day  and 
age  have  been  caught  in  the  meshes  of  this  soph- 
istry. 

Victor  Hugo  dealt  with  such  fallacies  in  his 
recorded  estimate  of  the  mission  of  Christ  when 

* From  an  address  by  Ernest  H.  Cherrington,  of  Westerville, 
Ohio. 


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he  said:  “To  combat  Pharisaism,  unmask  im- 
posture, overthrow  tyrannies,  usurpations,  preju- 
dices, falsehoods,  superstitions,  to  substitute  the 
true  for  the  false,  to  combat  for  the  persecuted 
and  the  opprest,  such  was  the  war  of  Jesus 
Christ.” 

That  great  character  of  all  the  ages,  Jesus 
Christ,  touched  the  keynote  of  all  religious 
thought  and  activity  when  in  His  first  sermon  at 
Nazareth,  standing  before  those  who  ridiculed 
His  presumption,  yet  were  amazed  and  captivated 
by  His  doctrine.  He  declared  that  He  had  been 
anointed  to  preach  the  gospel  to  the  poor,  to 
heal  the  broken-hearted,  to  preach  deliverance  to 
the  captives,  the  recovery  of  sight  to  the  blind, 
and  the  setting  at  liberty  the  bruised. 

The  great  central  value  of  every  religion  that 
this  world  has  known,  old  and  new,  has  consisted 
in  the  ability  of  that  religion  to  alleviate  human 
suffering,  to  relieve  human  ills,  to  do  away  with 
human  sorrows  and  heartaches,  to  create  human 
happiness,  to  right  human  wrongs,  and  to  estab- 
lish not  only  yonder  in  the  heavens,  but  here  on 
earth  among  men,  God’s  real  Kingdom  of  Eight- 
eousness.  The  first  positive,  vital  mission  of  the 
church  does  not  consist  merely  in  the  selfish  de- 
sire upon  the  part  of  men  and  women  to  get  to 
heaven  and  save  their  own  souls.  It  consists, 
rather,  in  the  larger,  higher,  nobler  desire  and 
effort  to  bring  something  of  heaven  to  this  old 


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earth  and  to  help  brighten  the  dark  places  of 
this  world. 

Such  is  the  mission  of  the  church  not  simply 
in  a general  sense,  but  it  is  the  mission  of  the 
church  in  a peculiar  sense  at  this,  the  greatest  of 
all  crises  in  the  world’s  history.  And  since  this 
is  the  peculiar  mission  of  the  church  and  of  the 
Christian  religion,  it  is  the  all-important  mission 
of  every  arm  of  power  which  the  church  con- 
trols, every  agency  for  righteousness  which  op- 
erates as  a medium  for  the  spirit  of  the  church, 
every  moral  reform  which  moves  forward  in  the 
name  of  Christianity  to  do  service  in  the  world’s 
war  for  humanity. 

. The  temperance  reform  in  its  effort  to  apply 

''  the  truths  of  Christianity  to  the  solution  of  one 
of  the  world’s  greatest  moral  problems  has  made 
great  progress.  It  has  done  yoeman  service  in 
those  activities  which  stand  for  the  highest  and 
best  in  human  welfare;  but  the  experiences  of 
the  past  have  thoroughly  demonstrated  the  fact 
that  “Time  makes  ancient  good  uncouth.”  The 
key  to  the  portals  of  the  future  is  not  the  rusted 
key  that  has  served  to  open  the  doors  of  the 
past.  The  temperance  reform  movement  faces 
to-day  the  greatest  crisis  of  its  history.  There 
have  been  a few  outstanding  instances  in  the  his- 
tory of  moral  reforms,  when,  taking  advantage 
of  psychological  conditions  and  psychological 
periods,  reforms  that  might  otherwise  have  re- 


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quired  long  years  have  been  completed,  compara- 
tively speaking,  in  a day. 

Who  can  say  that  the  moral  forces  of  the 
world  are  not  to-day  face  to  face  with  such  a 
condition  in  this  world-wide  movement  for  the 
Prohibition  of  the  liquor  traffic?  When  the  great 
peace  conference  of  the  warring  nations  assem- 
bles, there  will  be  presented  not  only  the  oppor- 
tunity for  organized  Christianity  to  do  service 
in  the  effort  to  settle  the  question  of  universal 
peace,  but  in  all  probability  there  will  also  be 
given  to  the  organized  moral  forces  of  four  con- 
tinents the  unexampled  opportunity  to  strike  a 
crushing  blow  at  the  international  liquor  trafi&c, 
and,  perchance,  to  win  a monumental  victory  for 
world  sobriety. 

The  advanced  steps  which  have  been  taken  dur- 
ing this  great  world  war  in  limiting  and  prohibit- 
ing the  liquor  traffic  make  it  possible  for  the  de- 
mands of  this  temperance  reform  to  be  repre- 
sented in  a large  way  with  a strong  voice  at 
the  council  table  where  the  peace  protocol  of  the 
nations  will  be  signed.  The  remarkable  benefits 
of  Prohibition  where  it  has  been  tried  in  the  old 
world,  fresh  and  new  in  the  minds  of  the  nations’ 
rulers  and  leaders,  will  open  wide  the  gate  for 
negotiations  that  may  possibly  lead  to  the  deal- 
ing of  one  mighty  blow  that  may  sweep  the 
liquor  traffic  from  the  face  of  the  earth. 

The  real  missionary  stage  of  this  Anti-Saloon 


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League  movement  has  arrived.  The  demands  of 
the  hour  are  for  a wider  and  higher  sphere  of 
activity  in  the  struggle  against  alcohol.  The 
numerous  contests  that  have  been  and  are  being 
waged  against  the  liquor  traffic  in  our  cities  and 
counties  are  not  sufficient.  State-wide  struggles 
against  alcohol  are  at  best  provincial,  and  even 
the  coveted  boon  of  national  Prohibition  can  not 
be  more  than  a decisive  battle  of  the  war.  The 
mighty,  crucial  conflict  for  the  final  and  complete 
solution  of  this  national  and  world  problem 
under  the  spell  of  an  impending  psychological 
hour  waits  upon  the  outcome  of  this  greatest  of 
world  wars. 

No  temperance  organization  on  earth  is  so 
well  equipped,  so  close  to  the  heart  of  the  church, 
y so  related  to  the  temperance  movement  of  other 
countries,  so  well  and  properly  prepared  to  ini- 
tiate a great  international  organization  of  the 
Prohibition  sentiment  of  the  world,  as  the  Anti- 
Saloon  League  of  America.  The  opportunity 
thus  presented  to  this  League  at  this  epochal 
period  is  unparalleled.  The  responsibility  which 
that  opportunity  imposes  is  of  a kind  and  degree 
which  belong  to  the  obligations  of  a sacred 
trust.  The  possibilities  for  service  and  lasting 
benedictions  upon  the  races  of  men  are  bounded 
only  by  the  limitations  of  time  and  space. 

If  this  movement  for  the  overthrow  of  the 
liquor  traffic  in  America — so  rich  in  resources, 


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so  blest  with  a devoted  and  faithful  following, 
so  fixt  in  public  confidence — should  neglect  the 
pressing  duty  at  hand  and  fail  to  measure  up  to 
the  new  demands  of  the  hour,  regardless  of  all 
the  good  it  may  have  done,  it  will  serve  in  his- 
tory largely  to  emphasize  the  most  colossal  blun- 
der in  moral  reform  movements. 

On  the  other  hand,  if  our  eyes  are  opened  to 
the  light,  if  our  wills  are  equal  to  the  test,  if 
our  souls  are  responsive  to  the  call,  this  move- 
ment under  God  will  record  a new  chapter  in  the 
history  of  the  struggle  for  liberty,  will  lift  up  a 
new  standard  for  the  world  and  will  bequeath  a 
priceless  heritage  upon  nations  yet  unborn. 


WHERE  TO  LOOK  FOR  PROHIBITION 
FANATICS  THESE  DAYS* 

My  advocacy  of  Prohibition  has  evoked  criti- 
cism from  some  of  my  clerical  friends.  In  a 
recent  meeting  one  brother  rose  and  asked : “Do 
you  think  you  know  more  than  St.  Paul?”  With 
as  much  modesty  as  possible,  I replied,  “Yes,  I 
think  I do.”  St.  Paul  did  not  know  how  to  use 
a microscope;  St.  Paul  was  ignorant  of  the  ex- 
istence of  germs  of  disease.  He  did  not  know 
what  the  microscope  reveals,  that  one  glass  of 
wine  will  paralyze  the  white  corpuscles  of  the 

* From  an  address  by  Dr.  James  Empringham,  of  New  York. 

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blood,  rendering  these  little  bodyguards  incapa- 
ble of  destroying  disease  germs.  In  things  med- 
ical I would  rather  have  trusted  Luke  than  Paul, 
but  even  Dr.  Luke  knew  no  more  than  physicians 
of  his  day.  Men  try  to  persuade  me  that  the 
barbarous  institution  of  polygamy  is  right  be- 
cause the  patriarchs  of  Scripture  were  polyga- 
mists, but  even  David,  the  most  godly  man  of 
his  time,  would  be  so  far  behind  modern  morality 
that  if  living  to-day  the  Psalmist  would  be  in 
jail  for  having  more  wives  than  the  welfare  of 
the  community  permits. 

f Another  friend  said  to  me,  “Well,  well,  I could 
I not  believe  my  ears  when  I learned  that  you  had 
/ joined  that  bunch  of  fanatics.”  “But  why  do  you 
/ call  them  fanatics?”  “Because  you  try  to  dic- 
tate what  people  shall  eat  and  drink.”  “Not  at 
■yy'  all.  We  are  concerned  with  what  people  sell. 
You  may  drink  Sewage,  carbolic  acid,  whisky  or 
any  other  poison  and  our  League  will  not  seek 
to  restrain  you  by  force.  But  if  you  attempt 
to  sell  any  commodity  injurious  to  the  health  of 
the  community,  no  matter  whether  it  be  infected 
milk,  diseased  meat,  or  dangerous  drugs,  your 
-"^ct  ceases  to  be  an  individual  matter  and  be- 
comes a social  problem.”  There  are  those  who 
do  go  to  the  extreme  of  dictating  to  their  fel- 
lows what  they  shall  drink,  but  you  must  not 
look  for  these  Prohibition  fanatics  in  the  pulpit 
or  on  the  platform,  but  in  the  offices  of  “big 


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business.”  The  penalty  for  drinking  a glass  of 
beer  is  instant  dismissal  in  many  great  firms  to- 
day. Some  companies  go  so  far  as  to  post  up 
notices  warning  their  employees  that  they  will 
forfeit  their  positions  if  seen  entering  or  leav- 
ing a saloon.  Many  large  employers  of  labor 
have  their  men  thoroughly  terrified  through 
their  system  of  espionage. 

WHY  HE  ENLISTED  * 

Among  the  forces  that  have  crowded  in  be- 
hind me  and  forced  me  out  to  face  this  common 
enemy,  United  Liquor,  are  two  that  stand  out 
distinctly.  It  was  just  nineteen  years  ago  when 
I sat  over  there  in  this  very  hall  and  listened, 
leaning  forward  to  catch  his  every  word,  for  two 
hours,  as  John  Gr.  Woolley,  the  Wendell  Phillips 
of  this  great  reform,  whom  those  of  us  who 
know  him  well  love  for  what  he  is  and  what  he 
has  done,  gave  his  plea  for  “Young  Men  for 
War.”  He  said,  “The  liquor  traffic  can  never 
be  licensed  without  sin,”  and  I,  a college  boy, 
believed  him  and  I listened  on  until  he  closed 
his  great  address:  “Pleading  for  Strength, 
Christian  Manhood,  Heart  Power,  Brain  Power, 
Hand  Power  that  measures  by  foot  pounds,  not 
up,  but  forward  in  Jesus’s  name,”  and  we  all 
agreed  with  him. 

* Dr.  F.  Scott  McBride,  of  Chicago. 


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I went  back  to  my  hotel  over  here  on  the 
square  facing  the  monument,  and  said  I was 
willing  to  enlist.  I thought  I was  fighting  in 
that  war,  but  it  was  twelve  years  after,  college 
over,  seminary  finished,  that  I stood  beside  a 
lad  on  a gallows  over  in  Kittanning,  Pa.  This 
lad  grew  up  in  that  county.  The  night  before 
he  told  me  when  tears  filled  his  eyes,  that  it  was 
the  quart  of  whisky  that  had  crazed  his  mind, 
and  moved  him  as  a “bolt  from  the  blue”  to 
shoot  down  to  death  the  little  woman  he  called 
his  wife,  the  mother  of  his  baby  boy.  To  her 
he  had  given  troth  just  two  years  before  that  he 
would  “love,  sustain,  protect  and  support,”  and 
I believed  he  meant  it.  I heard  the  judge  enun- 
ciate the  sentence  that  this  lad  should  hang  by 
his  neck  until  he  was  dead  on  a certain  day. 
Methinks  I see  the  Goddess  of  Justice  hang  her 
head  in  shame  as  she  tried  to^ba^ime  the  scales 
that  day. 


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SAY  THE  KIND  WORD  NOW! 

Here  is  a little  song  as  good  for  reform  workers  as  for 
any  one  else.  It  will  make  us  all  happier  and  more  use- 
ful if  we  will  live  up  to  its  teaching : 

“If  you  have  a tender  message, 

Or  a loving  word  to  say, 

Don’t  wait  till  you  forget  it. 

But  whisper  it  to-day. 

Who  knows  what  bitter  memories 
May  haunt  you  if  you  wait. 

So  make  your  loved  one  happy 
Before  it  is  too  late.” 

THE  FOOLERY  OF  THE  LIQUOR  TRAFFIC 

It  is  wonderful  how  editors  and  other  public  men  rap- 
idly discover  how  the  saloon  has  been  duping  them  when 
once  they  have  a trial  of  what  real  Prohibition  means. 

Governor  Lister  of  Washington  in  a recent  speech  sug- 
gested that  the  state  liquor  law  be  ‘ ‘ tightened  up  instead 
of  loosened  up !” 

Commenting  on  this,  the  Aberdeen  World  remarks 
that  “The  suggestion  is  not  a had  one,  and  there  is  no 
doubt  that  this  will  be  done  in  case  violations  of  the  law 
become  flagrant”;  and  adds,  “In  fact,  the  advocates  of 
total  Prohibition  could  want  no  better  argument  for 
attempting  to  make  the  State  absolutely  dry  than  con- 
tinued violations  of  the  law  by  those  who  want  to  get 
the  State  back  into  the  wet  column.” 

Abraham  Lincoln  once  remarked,  “You  can  fool  all  of 
the  people  part  of  the  time  and  you  can  fool  part  of  the 


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people  all  of  the  time,  but  you  can ’t  fool  all  of  the  people 
all  of  the  time,”  and  that  the  masses  of  our  people  are 
getting  their  eyes  open  to  the  foolery  of  the  liquor  traffic 
is  very  evident  by  the  course  of  events  to-day. 


NOT  A BOTTLE  IN  SIGHT 

George  Palmer  Putnam,  formerly  secretary  to  the 
Governor  of  Oregon,  writing  to  the  Morning  Oregonian 
on  his  way  to  Mexico  with  a battalion  of  Oregon  infan- 
try, declares  that  the  excursion  was  “as  dry  as  the  sands 
of  Mexico.” 

“Speaking  of  health  and  happiness,  one  fact  is  worth 
mentioning,  ’ ’ says  Mr.  Putnam.  ‘ ‘ This  is  a non-alcoholic 
excursion.  The  sands  of  Mexico  could  be  no  more  dry 
than  was  the  Clackamas  camp  and  than  is  this  train. 
The  writer  has  seen  not  a single  drink  nor  a single  man 
drunk.  There  hasn’t  been  a bottle  visible  at  any  time. 
So  far  as  the  militia  is  concerned  Prohibition  is  abso- 
lute, and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  it’s  a voluntary  abstinence, 
for  the  spirit  of  the  men  is  such  that  anything  tending 
to  irregularity  would  be  frowned  upon.” 

At  religious  services  held  at  Camp  Withycombe,  Clacka- 
mas, previous  to  the  departure  of  the  State  troops.  Mayor 
W.  S.  Gilbert,  chaplain  of  the  third  infantry,  in  his  ad- 
dress to  the  soldiers  said:  “What  a blessing  to  this 
camp,  to  this  regiment  and  to  all  Oregon  that  booze  is 
taboo.  Thank  God  for  a Colonel  who  does  not  drink 
and  thank  God  that  our  officers,  who  lead  our  men,  are 
without  exception  men  of  high  standing  and  absolute 
teetotalers.  We  are  leaving  Oregon  a regiment  abso- 
lutely sober.  We  are  going  to  places  where  we  will  find 


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many  a temptation.  But,  my  comrades,  we  are  soldiers 
and  do  not  intend  to  surrender  to  any  foe.  Let  us  vow 
right  here  and  now  absolutely  to  cut  out  all  foolishness 
and  be  real  soldiers  of  the  highest  possible  efficiency — 
men  clean  in  body  and  soul — so  that  we  can  look  our- 
selves in  the  face  and  our  mothers  and  our  wives  and 
not  be  ashamed.  ’ ’ 

KEEP  DRY  OR  GET  OUT 

Missouri,  tho  voting  wet,  is  surely  drying  up  in  spots. 
The  officers  of  its  National  Guard  are  all  on  the  water 
wagon,  Brigadier-General  Harvey  C.  Clark,  at  the  head 
of  the  Missouri  Guard,  requested  all  the  members  of  his 
staff  to  become  total  abstainers  while  on  service  on  the 
Mexican  frontier.  Those  who  were  unwilling  to  so 
pledge  themselves  were  asked  to  resign.  And  so  the 
good  work  goes  on.  Whether  in  war  or  in  peace,  there 
is  no  comfortable  place  left  for  a liquor  saloon. 


MAKE  A CHAIN 

One  by  one  all  the  forces  for  righteousness  in  America 
are  lining  up  against  the  iniquitous  saloon.  The  Episco- 
pal Church  in  Michigan  is  now  solidly  in  position  for 
Prohibition.  The  Lansing  (Mich.)  State  J ournal 
that  formal  notice  has  been  received  that  the  annual 
convention  of  the  Western  Michigan  Episcopal  diocese, 
in  session  at  Sturgis,  adopted  unanimously  a resolution 
favoring  and  endorsing  the  campaign  for  a dry  State. 
This  action,  it  is  said,  commits  the  Episcopal  Church  of 
Michigan  to  the  dry  movement.  Similar  action  was  taken 
unanimously  several  weeks  ago  in  the  convention  of  the 
Detroit  diocese  and  it  is  believed  that  the  view  exprest 


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will  be  echoed  by  Episcopal  churcbmen  in  the  upper 
peninsula. 


BOOZE  NOT  A TRUE  SPORT 


And  now  comes  the  “unkindest  cut  of  all.”  John  L, 
Sullivan,  the  aforetime  prizefighter  who  knows  both 
liquor  and  sport  clear  to  the  ground  by  actual  personal 
experience,  declares  that  the  booze  is  not  even  a game 
sport.  Sullivan  says:  “John  Barleycorn  was  the  real 
heavyweight  champion.  I was  not  knocked  out  by  Jim 


Uorbett,  but  by  Jim  Jams.  Booze  strikes  a man  below 
the  belt.  The  booze  game  is  a game  no  one  can  beat. 
Every  fellow  thinks  he  can,  but  if  he  don’t  let  it  alone  it 
will  get  him.  I punished  some  of  the  stuff  myself,  but 
I cut  it  out  and  see  what  I am  now.  They  said  when  I 
was  whooping  it  up  years  ago  that  I would  die  in  the 
gutter.  But  I fooled  them.  I have  not  touched  a drop 
in  years.  I don’t  need  it,  and  I know  very  well  that  it 
don’t  need  me. 

“Nowadays  a man  can’t  drink  and  get  away  with  it 
as  he  once  could.  The  man  who  drinks  is  not  wanted 
now,  no  matter  how  good  he  is.  There  has  been  a big 
change  in  the  last  thirty  years.  Some  day  John  Barley- 
corn will  receive  the  knock-out  blow.  The  day  is  coming 
in  this  country  when  there  will  be  no  saloons.  ’ ’ 


GOOD  FOR  ALL 


Prohibition  is  like  the  “Old  Time  Religion,”  good  for 
everybody  that  gets  it.  Here  is  an  Iowa  experience: 
“According  to  a statement  by  Mayor  Hanna,  of  Des 
Moines,  the  cost  for  patients  at  the  State  inebriate  asy- 
lum fell  from  $1,818  for  the  last  quarter  of  1914:  to  $952 


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for  the  same  quarter  in  1915,  while  the  number  of  pa- 
tients fell  from  55  to  28  for  the  same  two  periods,  a re- 
duction of  50  per  cent.  The  commitments  to  the  insane 
asylums  because  of  insanity  induced  by  over-indulgence 
in  alcoholics  are  already  noticeably  less.  The  demands 
on  the  county  poor  fund  are  less  insistent.  In  fact,  there 
seems  to  be  no  place  in  which  the  city  and  county  have 
not  profited  by  closing  the  saloon.  ’ ’ 


A GOOD  SNAKE  STORY 

G.  W.  Tuttle  tells  this  striking  story  from  real  life  in 
the  Union  Signal.  It  is  not  only  a very  interesting  tale, 
but  carries  irresistible  logic  with  it.  Mr.  Tuttle  came  on 
a rattlesnake  on  Deep  Creek  in  the  San  Bernardino 
mountains.  “This  snake  was  sunning  himself  on  a nice 
stretch  of  sand,  and  he  began  to  rattle  very  loudly  and 
indignantly  while  I was  still  some  distance  from  him. 
He  would  back  toward  the  bushes,  then  stop,  coil  and 
rattle,  and  then  repeat  the  performance.  Evidently  he 
was  an  old-timer,  for  with  all  his  bluster  he  realized 
that  ‘ discretion  is  the  better  part  of  valor,  ’ and  the  shel- 
ter of  the  bushes  looked  good  to  him.  I looked  about  me 
for  a stick,  but  could  find  none;  so  I had  recourse  to 
stones.  Stones  had  proved  effective  weapons  in  the  past. 
If  David  could  kill  Goliath  with  a single  stone,  why 
should  I not  slay  a rattlesnake  with  a whole  canyon  full 
of  the  missiles?  I must  confess  that  I wasted  lots  of 
perfectly  good — but  cheap — ammunition  before  I scored 
a hit.  At  last,  just  as  he  had  gained  the  bushes,  a stone 
hit  his  tail  above  the  rattles,  cutting  it  almost  entirely 
off,  and  making  it  impossible  to  use  his  warning  rattles 
again.  The  bushes  were  so  thick  that  I could  not  find 


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him,  so  he  escaped  from  me  in  that  crippled  condition. 
He  was  now  a nice,  respectable  snake*;  no  angler  in  the 
future  would  be  alarmed  by  his  rude  and  noisy  warning 
— but  he  was  more  dangerous  than  ever. 

“In  this  true  incident  behold  a Parable  of  the  Saloon. 
Men  say,  ‘We  will  curtail  their  privileges;  we  will  make 
them  respectable;  we  will  make  them  close  their  doors 
on  the  Sabbath  Day ; we  will  make  them  quiet  and  law- 
abiding!”  This  is  as  much  as  to  say,  ‘We  will  take  a 
little  from  the  tail!  We  wiU  take  the  rattles  but  leave 
the  fangs!’  Only  one  class  of  rattlesnakes  or  saloons 
are  absolutely  safe — the  dead  ones. 


THE  SALOON  AND  THE  DEATH-RATE 

These  health  doctors  and  health  commissioners  will 
get  the  saloon  people  all  fussed  up  yet  if  they  don’t  look 
out.  Here  comes  Dr.  John  Dill  Robertson,  the  Health 
Commissioner  of  the  City  of  Chicago,  saying:  “In  the 
City  of  Chicago,  where  the  death-rate  is  approximately 
one  hundred  a day,  it  is  safe  to  say  that  at  least  25  per 
cent,  of  these  deaths  are  caused  directly  or  indirectly  by 
alcohol.  Sir  William  Osier,  late  of  Johns  Hopkins  Uni- 
versity, professor  of  medicine  at  Oxford,  McGill  and 
Pennsylvania  Universities  and  one  of  the  world’s  great- 
est physicians,  says  of  alcohol  that  it  produces  acute  in- 
flammation of  the  stomach,  hemorrhage  of  the  pancreas, 
heart  disease,  cancer  of  the  stomach,  Bright’s  disease, 
fatty  liver,  hardened  liver,  inflammation  of  the  nerves, 
epilepsy,  hardening  of  the  arteries  and  a multitude  of 
other  afflictions  of  the  body.  These  are  known  medical 
facts.  Alcohol  is  truly  a poison.  It  is  not  only  the 
causative  factor  in  the  diseases  and  afflictions  I have 


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mentioned  above,  but  it  invades  the  mental  man  and 
produces  insanity.” 

No  wonder  the  low  Kansas  death-rate  is  worrying  the 
liquor  brethren. 


THE  TESTIMONY  OF  THE  NEW  CONVERTS 

Nothing  is  more  cheering  to  the  old  standbys  follow- 
ing a great  religious  revival  than  to  listen  to  the  testi- 
mony of  the  new  converts.  The  reports  that  come  to  us 
from  the  new  Prohibition  States  sound  much  the  same. 

The  Burlington  (Iowa)  Hawkey e reports  the  follow- 
ing conversation  overheard  on  the  street  between  an  at- 
torney and  a business  man.  The  attorney  is  a teetotaler, 
and  has  always  been  one.  He  said : “I  have  always  been 
bitterly  opposed  to  Prohibition,  and  considered  it  futile 
and  foolish.  However,  I am  frank  to  say  that  with  the 
experience  of  the  past  few  months,  I would  to-day  vote 
in  favor  of  it.” 

The  business  man  replied:  “So  would  I.  Tho,  like 
you,  I once  was  opposed  to  Prohibition,  my  experience  in 
the  State  of  Washington,  where  a company  I am  inter- 
ested in  employs  hundreds  of  men,  and  here  in  Burling- 
ton, has  taught  me  to  know  that  Prohibition  is  a good 
thing.  It  has  come  to  stay.  ’ ’ 

Let  the  Prohibition  class  meeting  go  on  until  it  merges 
into  the  national  Prohibition  love-feast. 

PUT  DRINK  ON  LIST  OF  POISONS 

Mr.  Francis  Norie-Miller,  of  the  General  Accident, 
Fire  and  Life  Assurance  Corporation,  Ltd.,  recently 
wrote:  “I  have  come  unhesitatingly  to  the  opinion  that 
the  etfeet  of  alcohol  on  the  human  system  is  to  degrade  in 


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every  particular — mentally,  morally  and  physically. 
Those  of  my  employees  who  have  indulged  freely  have, 
by  a process  more  or  less  gradual,  become  absolutely  use- 
less. Poverty  and  misery  in  the  homes  have  resulted. 
Their  children  I find  weak,  physically  and  mentally,  and 
I feel  that,  not  only  for  the  sake  of  the  present  genera- 
tion, but  for  the  sake  of  generations  to  come,  every 
community  should  have  Prohibition  to-  the  extent  that  it 
would  be  as  difficult  to  obtain  strong  drink  as  to  obtain 
strong  poisons.” 

ESCAPED  IN  TIME 

A news  story  from  Russia  says:  ‘‘A  director  of  a 
glass  factory  in  Moscow  said  that  fifty  years  more  of 
drunkenness  would  have  lost  to  the  Russian  people  all 
capacity  for  resistance  and  the  nation  would  have  fallen 
an  easy  prey  to  Germany.” 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  only  thing  that  made 
it  possible  for  Russia  to  come  back  after  her  early  dis- 
asters in  the  world  war  was  Prohibition.  God  grant  the 
United  States  wisdom  enough  to  learn  the  great  lesson ! 
The  best  of  all  preparedness  is  a clean,  sober  citizenship. 

QUIT  THE  DRINK  OR  LOSE  THE  JOB 

There  are  now  in  the  United  States  alone  a good  deal 
more  than  one  million  good,  healthy,  family-supporting 
jobs  that  are  absolutely  closed  against  the  man  who 
drinks.  Not  only  against  the  man  who  drinks  while  on 
duty,  but  against  the  man  who  is  not  willing  to  keep 
away  from  the  saloon  while  off  duty.  If  any  man  doubts, 
let  him  ask  the  railroads  about  “Rule  G”  and  the  multi- 
tude of  manufacturers  who  are  following  their  example. 


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NO  DRINKING  MAN  NEED  APPLY 

A.  J.  Thornley,  of  the  Narragansett  Machine  Com- 
pany, when  asked  about  the  attitude  of  his  company 
toward  drink,  made  this  suggestive  reply:  “We  do  not 
know  anything  about  the  scientific  side  of  the  bad  effect 
of  alcohol  on  the  human  system.  Our  experience  in 
dealing  with  it  from  an  industrial  point  of  view,  how- 
ever, makes  us  ready  to  believe  the  worst  that  can  be 
said  against  it.  Its  use  means  inefficiency.  It  means 
greater  liability  to  accident,  to  insubordination,  to  dis- 
organization. We  have  proved  this  so  thoroughly  to  our 
own  satisfaction  that  the  most  important  rule  in  our 
plant  is  to  the  effect  that  ‘No  drinking  man  need  ap- 
ply.’ ” 


A HAPPY  JAIL  EXPERIENCE 

The  Union  Signal  has  this  happy  story  of  Prohibition 
in  North  Dakota:  “Sixty  ministers  of  the  Gospel,  dele- 
gates to  the  State  Sunday-school  Convention,  recently 
had  the  unique  experience  of  being  entertained  in  the 
Ramsey  County  jail,  at  Devil’s  Lake,  North  Dakota.  So 
well  enforced  is  the  Prohibition  law  in  North  Dakota  that 
it  is  no  uncommon  thing  to  find  the  jails  unoccupied. 
It  occurred  to  the  Commercial  Club  of  the  city,  when 
trying  vainly  to  find  enough  rooms  for  the  visiting  dele- 
gates, that  it  might  utilize  the  empty  jail  for  that  pur- 
pose, and,  according  to  the  Minnewaukon  Siftings  of 
June  15th,  ‘the  corridors,  cages,  dungeon  and  all  other 
available  space  of  the  county  jail  were  turned  over  to 
men  of  the  cloth.’  ‘We  want  to  impress  these  visitors 
that  Devil’s  Lake  is  about  the  best  place  they  ever 
struck,’  declared  the  secretary  of  the  Commercial  Club. 


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‘Few  cities  in  the  Northwest  have  an  elegant  $60,000 
county  jail,  without  a person  in  it.’  ” 

How  splendid  it  will  be  when  we  can  use  Ohio  and 
Pennsylvania  and  New  York  jails  for  such  useful  and 
gladsome  occasions. 


BOOZE  AND  DOPE 

The  Toronto  Academy  of  Medicine  in  its  last  meeting 
scored  “the  drink”  as  a deadly  habit-forming  drug. 

‘ ‘ The  public  should  learn  from  us  that  there  is  mighty 
little,  if  any,  place  for  alcohol  in  medicine,”  said 
Lieut.-Col.  J.  W.  S.  McCullough,  secretary  of  the 
Provincial  Board  of  Health.  “They  should  learn  that 
alcohol  is  a poison  in  the  same  class  with  opium,  cocaine 
and  other  deadly  drugs,  and  that  the  drunkard  is  no 
more  a criminal  than  the  morphine  user.” 

Some  of  us  who  were  brought  up  in  the  backwoods  on 
red-nosed  doctors  who  gave  whisky  for  everything,  from 
colic  to  mumps,  are  glad  to  be  alive  and  see  this  new 
day. 


IT  WORKS  ANYWHERE 

One  thing  about  Prohibition  is  that  it  works  in  one 
place  as  well  as  in  another.  What  has  been  good  for  Kan- 
sas is  just  as  good  for  Russia,  and  what  has  been  a bless- 
ing for  Maine  is  just  as  great  a blessing  to  the  provinces 
of  Canada.  The  Prime  Minister  of  Prince  Edward  Island, 
Canada,  which  has  had  Prohibition  since  1907,  recently 
informed  the  government  of  New  Brunswick  that  “Pro- 
hibition is  far  ahead  of  any  other  law  that  I have  known. 
We  have  practically  no  crime;  our  jails  are  almost 
empty  and  we  have  very  few  prosecutions  in  the  Su- 


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preme  Court.  In  Queen’s  County  jail  we  have  only 
three  prisoners,  in  Prince  County  jail  only  four,  and  in 
King’s  County  jail  there  are  none  at  all.” 


BLEST  RUSSIA 

An  Associated  Press  report  to  the  American  news- 
papers telling  of  the  blessings  to  Russia  under  Prohibi- 
tion said:  “A  noteworthy  falling  off  in  the  number  of 
domestic  rows ; a lighter  and  more  hopeful  spirit  among 
the  people;  a decrease  in  arrears  of  taxes;  fields  better 
tilled  and  a growing  demand  for  agricultural  machinery ; 
a decrease  in  alcoholics  in  the  charity  hospitals  and  other 
institutions,  and  a decrease  in  crimes  and  in  the  number 
of  beggars.  ’ ’ According  to  this  investigator,  the  peasant, 
instead  of  feeling  that  he  has  suffered  an  injury  by  the 
abolition  of  vodka,  is  grateful  for  having  a temptation 
removed  which  he  knew  he  himself  was  powerless  to 
resist.  The  Emperor  is  reverently  referred  to  as  “Nicho- 
las the  Temperate.”  A peasant  is  quoted  as  saying: 
“We  have  now  one  common  enemy,  the  Germans;  for- 
merly every  man  was  his  own  enemy.” 

KNOCKED  OUT  BY  ONE  GLASS  OF  BEER 

Dr.  Edwin  F.  Bowers,  who  has  made  a wide  study  of 
the  influence  of  strong  drink  on  the  efficiency  of  the 
human  body,  recently  wrote : ‘ ‘ The  great  business  in- 
terests of  America  are  beginning  to  comprehend  that  if 
an  office  worker  takes  even  a moderate  dose  of  one  glass 
of  beer  daily,  he  decreases  his  efficiency  by  an  average 
of  7 per  cent.  In  other  words,  it  would  require  fifteen 
men,  indulging  in  one  glass  of  beer  daily,  to  do  approxi- 
mately the  work  which  properly  should  be  done  by  four- 


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teen  abstainers.  They  are  realizing  that  a drinking  man 
can  not  stand  extremes  of  temperature  as  well,  that  he 
can  not  hear  or  see  or  smell  as  well,  that  he  can  not  lift 
as  much  or  lift  as  often,  that  he  can  not  walk  as  far,  dig 
as  much,  or  carry  as  enduringly  as  tho  he  were  ab- 
stinent. And  with  what  Herbert  Spencer  would  call 
‘altruistic  egoism,’  business  is  determined  that,  for  the 
mutual  interests  of  workman  and  employer,  drinking 
shall  cease.” 

The  National  Prohibition  Amendment  is  the  cure ! 

THE  MONDAY  MORNING  NIGHTMARE 

J.  B.  Mansfield,  vice-president  of  the  J.  E.  Bolles  Iron 
and  Wire  Works,  says:  “We  have  overcome  our  ‘Mon- 
day morning  nightmare’  by  paying  our  men  on  Tues- 
day instead  of  Saturday.”  Mr.  Mansfield  bears  this 
testimony  also : ‘ ‘ Forty  per  cent,  of  our  accidents  are 
among  men  who  take  intoxicating  liquor.  Ninety  per 
cent,  of  serious  accidents  occur  among  men  who  drink. 
Not  a single  serious  accident  has  happened  to  an  em- 
ployee who  was  a total  abstainer  since  our  compensation 
law  went  into  effect.  We  now  discharge  and  refuse 
recommendation  to  an  employee  who  comes  to  work  Mon- 
day morning  smelling  of  whisky.” 

Shut  all  the  saloons  and  banish  the  morning  “night- 
mare” from  America. 

CIRCUS  DAY  AND  PROHIBITION 

Bamum  and  Bailey’s  big  circus  was  in  Oklahoma  City 
a while  ago  and  the  following  day  the  Daily  Oklahoman, 
the  largest  daily  paper  in  the  State,  published  an  article 
entitled  “Benefit  of  Prohibition  Shown  on  Circus  Day  as 


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at  No  Other  Time,”  and  quoted  from  Sheriff  Binion,  of 
Oklahoma  County,  who  said:  “One  good  feature  of 
Prohibition  is  that  when  a circus  comes  to  town  we  sel- 
dom have  any  trouble.  In  times  when  we  had  saloons, 
circus  day  meant  a big  time  for  persons  inclined  to  drink 
heavily.  Nowadays  the  circus  comes  and  goes  without 
trouble.  In  saloon  days  the  circus  laborers  used  to  get 
drunk.  Then  people  from  the  small  towns  near  by  used 
to  drink,  too,  and  fights,  robberies  and  all  sorts  of  law- 
lessness followed.  But  now  the  circus  crowd  is  orderly 
and  officers  of  the  law  seldom,  if  ever,  are  needed.  ’ ’ 

In  an  editorial  on  the  same  subject  the  Daily  Okla- 
homan makes  a strong  case  for  Prohibition.  The  paper 
says:  “The  contrast  between  a saloonless  town  and  a 
saloon  town  on  circus  day  was  so  great  that  it  moved 
the  sheriff  to  reminiscence.  But  circus  day  is  not  the 
only  day  of  the  year  when  the  difference  is  noticeable. 
There  are  just  three  hundred  and  sixty-four  other  days 
in  the  year  when  the  advantages  of  the  saloonless  town 
are  visible  to  the  naked  eye.  If  anybody  can  produce 
one  sensible  argument  in  behalf  of  the  saloon,  he  can 
get  rich  a good  deal  quicker  than  Mr.  Wallingford. 
The  brewers  will  besprinkle  him  with  diamonds  and  the 
distillers  will  upholster  his  purse  with  million-dollar 
bills.  The  silence  remains  unbroken.  It  can’t  be  done. 
There  simply  isn’t  a word  to  say  for  the  saloons.  How 
they  managed  to  hold  on  as  long  as  they  have  is  one  of 
the  mysteries.  It  is  also  one  of  the  most  serious  re- 
flections upon  our  capacity  for  self-government.  Pos- 
terity is  going  to  have  a good  deal  to  wonder  about. 
Among  the  follies  of  the  fathers  will  stand  the  saloon.” 


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QUICK  LIQUOR  MAKES  A SLOW  BRAIN 

W.  S.  Stone,  grand  chief  of  the  Brotherhood  of  Loco- 
motive Engineers,  recently  speaking  for  his  powerful 
body  of  most  intelligent  workers,  said:  “The  position 
of  the  organization  is  well  known.  We  fight  the  liquor 
evil  perhaps  as  hard  as  any  of  the  churches.  Liquor  has 
no  place  in  our  modern  railroading.  There  is  no  class 
of  men  in  the  world  of  whom  more  is  required  and  who 
should  have  clearer  heads  than  the  men  in  charge  of 
the  transportation  services  of  this  country.  Those  of  us 
who  have  been  in  the  railroad  game  for  years  know  the 
infinitesimal  space  of  time  that  spells  the  difference  be- 
tween safety  and  disaster.  There  is  no  question  but 
that  liquor  does  slow  down  the  brain  action,  and  the 
man  in  the  cab  of  the  locomotive  and  the  man  in  charge 
of  the  train,  even  tho  he  has  no  regard  for  his  own 
safety,  has  no  business  to  use  it  in  any  way ; by  so  doing 
he  endangers  others.” 

There  is  not  a saloon-keeper  in  the  land  who  would 
ride  behind  a drunken  engineer  if  he  knew  it. 


A GREAT  MAN’S  LEGACY 

The  late  Gov.  John  D.  Long,  of  Massachusetts,  Secre- 
tary of  the  Navy  during  the  Spanish- American  War, 
and  a truly  great  and  good  man,  once  in  an  address  to 
Boston  boys  said:  “Boys,  I know  that  it  is  not  much 
use  to  preach  to  you,  and  that,  even  if  an  impression  is 
made  on  you,  it  runs  the  risk  of  being  effaced  as  soon 
as  you  come  into  exposure  to  a temptation.  But  if  you 
could  only  have,  in  these  bright,  hopeful,  confident  days 
of  yours,  the  experience  of  years,  you  would  abstain 


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from  intoxicating  liquors,  not  only  as  a matter  of  prin- 
ciple, but  as  a matter  of  hard  common-sense  and  of  your 
personal  happiness,  health,  success,  and  prosperity. 

‘ ‘ There  is  no  denying  that  intoxicating  liquors  are  in- 
dulged in  hy  many  respectable  people,  or  that  they  are 
associated,  in  some  literature  and  in  some  society,  with 
good  fellowship  and  merry  times,  or  that  some  persons  can 
use  them  moderately  without  immediately  apparent  in- 
jury. But  take  my  word  for  it  that  the  risk  of  their  use 
is  a terrible  risk;  that  there  can  be  just  as  good  times 
and  just  as  good  fellowship  without  them;  and  that 
nobody  thinks  a bit  less  of  a young  fellow  because  he  will 
not  use  them,  but  on  the  contrary  every  business  man  or 
professional  man,  whatever  his  own  habits,  instinctively 
turns  away  from  employing  any  young  man  who  has  the 
taint  of  liquor  about  him. 

“Every  physician  now  condemns  the  use  of  alcohol 
as  a drink.  Every  employer  counts  the  use  of  it  against 
an  employee.  If  you  want  a clear  head ; if  you  want  a 
sound  heart;  if  you  want  a clean  conscience;  if  you 
want  a healthy  body ; if  you  want  money  in  your  pocket 
and  credit  to  your  name,  put  your  foot  right  down  and 
say  that  you  are  going  to  abstain  from  the  use  of  in- 
toxicating liquors,  and  keep  the  faith.  Is  there  anything 
nastier  than  a man  under  the  influence?  Be  clean  and 
wholesome.  Keep  your  brain  clear,  your  head  steady, 
your  self-respect  Arm,  and  you  will  have  a life  that  is 
worth  living.  This  is  not  a matter  of  goody-goody  talk 
and  sentiment.  If  nothing  else  will  convince  you,  experi- 
ence will ; but  it  will  be  that  experience  which  can  only 
come  too  late  to  be  of  any  use.  You  may  think  that  you 
have  self-control  enough  to  take  care  of  yourself.  But  the 
chances  are  that  your  self-control  will  be  no  more  than 


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a pasteboard  against  a Gatling  gun  if  you  tamper  with 
temptation  and  once  begin  the  indulgence.” 

Let  every  boy  heed,  but  let  every  man  seek  to  kill  the 
saloon  that  puts  every  boy  in  danger. 


BIG  STRONG  PULL  ALL  TOGETHER 

The  Voice,  the  Methodist  Temperance  Society  paper, 
has  a keen  editorial  entitled  “Capping  the  Enemy’s 
Line”:  “In  the  Battle  of  the  Skagerak,  or,  if  you  can 
not  pronounce  that,  the  Battle  of  Jutland,  the  British 
battle  cruisers  found  it  necessary  to  turn  their  line  of 
battle  in  order  that  the  approaching  British  Grand  Fleet 
might  have  room  to  deploy  between  the  cruisers  and  the 
four  Queen  Elizabeths  which  had  been  supporting  the 
action  up  to  that  time.  As  the  British  battle  cruisers 
made  the  turn  the  approaching  German  High  Seas  Fleet 
headed  their  line  and  ‘capped’  it,  concentrating  their  fire 
on  the  turning-point,  with  the  result  that  three  great 
British  battle  cruisers  were  lost  in  a few  minutes.  When 
the  entire  British  fleet  had  finally  arrived  and  deployed 
for  action,  its  superior  speed  enabled  it  to  ‘cap’  the 
German  line  also,  and  probably  only  darkness  saved  the 
Germans  from  complete  destruction.  ‘Capping’  the 
enemy’s  line  is  a most  effective  battle  maneuver,  be- 
cause it  enables  an  entire  fleet  to  concentrate  its  fire 
upon  the  enemy’s  line,  while  the  attacking  ships  are 
protected  by  the  great  distance  from  the  fire  of  a con- 
siderable part  of  the  opposing  fleet’s  extended  line.  In 
the  recent  sea  battle  the  line  was  one  hundred  miles 
long. 

“ It  is  a principle  of  warfare  that  Prohibitionists  should 
appreciate  more.  It  sounds  heroic  to  say,  ‘Go  in  any- 


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where ; there  is  bully  good  fighting  all  along  the  line,  ’ 
but  it  is  mighty  poor  tactics.  We  should  take  point  by 
point  away  from  the  foe  by  concentration  of  effort.” 


AN  ELOQUENT  SUPPOSITION 

Here  is  a bright  logical  Yankee  supposition  from  a 
Boston  paper:  “Suppose,  for  instance,  that  we  could 
close  up  the  thousand  dramshops  of  Boston  some  Satur- 
day night,  put  Prohibition  into  operation,  allow  no 
liquor  to  come  into  the  city,  have  on  guard  a policeman 
to  watch  the  saloons  to  see  that  no  one  got  in,  and  a 
man  to  watch  the  policeman  to  see  that  he  did  not  get  in. 
Results:  No  sale  of  liquor,  men  sober  and  efficient. 
The  next  Saturday  afternoon — pay-day — instead  of 
spending  their  money  in  saloons  they  go  to  the  market 
and  purchase  the  food  necessary  for  a good  Sunday  din- 
ner. A boom  for  the  grocer,  the  butcher  and  the  baker. 
Next  week  shoes  are  purchased  for  the  children — a good 
thing  for  the  shoe  shop.  Then  follows  a dress  for  the 
wife,  with  better  furniture  for  the  home,  rugs  and  car- 
pets for  the  floors,  and  pictures  for  the  walls.  Later 
magazines  find  their  way  into  the  changed  home,  and  it 
becomes  a place  of  joy  and  plenty  instead  of  a home 
curst  by  drink.  With  the  demand  for  better  food  and 
clothing,  furniture  and  carpets,  every  legitimate  business 
is  boomed;  the  farm,  the  mill,  the  factory  share  in  the 
increased  prosperity.  Extend  the  area,  give  us  national 
Prohibition,  stop  the  waste  caused  by  the  liquor  traffic, 
and  the  money  now  spent  for  drink,  flowing  naturally 
into  the  proper  channels  of  trade,  would  create  a demand 
for  the  products  of  labor,  speed  the  wheels  of  our  pro- 
ducing machinery,  and  inaugurate  an  era  of  prosperity 


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such  as  we  have  not  before  witnessed  even  in  our  most 
palmy  days.” 

The  reports  that  come  from  Denver,  Portland,  Seattle 
and  all  the  new  Prohibition  cities  show  that  the  elo- 
quently stated  suppositions  concerning  Boston  are  well 
within  the  limit  of  possible  facts. 


THE  MARVELOUS  ADVANCE 

Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  of  Philadelphia,  is  generally  re- 
garded as  the  father  of  the  anti-liquor  movement  in 
America.  And  yet  he  openly  urged  that  those  who  had 
formed  the  drinking  habit  should  be  encouraged  to  use 
morphine,  opium  and  cocaine  as  substitutes  for  liquor. 
Let  any  discouraged  brother  who  thinks  we  are  not  going 
forward  in  this  movement  just  take  note  of  that  histori- 
cal fact. 


THE  RIGHT  KIND  OF  A GOVERNOR 

Moses  Alexander,  of  Idaho,  is  a great  governor.  He  is 
a true  descendant  of  the  Moses  whose  name  he  bears. 
Not  only  is  he  a first-class  business  man,  but  he  has  the 
full  courage  of  his  convictions.  This  is  illustrated  in 
the  fact  that  he  has  made  a standing  offer  to  buy  any 
banks  or  stores  which  feel  that  on  account  of  Prohibition 
they  will  be  forced  to  sell.  The  governor,  who  is  a man 
of  great  wealth,  has  done  this  in  times  past,  he  says,  and 
in  each  instance  he  has  resold  the  property  at  a greatly 
increased  value.  He  was  one  of  the  speakers  at  the  Anti- 
Saloon  League  convention  in  Indianapolis  and  told  from 
his  personal  experience  and  observation  how  Prohibition 
stimulates  all  lines  of  legitimate  industry. 


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SOBER  BIRMINGHAM 

President  George  B,  Ward,  of  the  City  Commission 
of  Birmingham,  Ala.,  when  asked  how  the  new  Prohibi- 
tion law  was  working  in  that  city,  related  this  incident : 
“May  16th,  17th  and  18th  the  Confederate  reunion  was 
held  in  Birmingham.  There  were  60,000  visitors  in  the 
city.  The  parade  was  six  miles  long  and  took  three  hours 
to  pass  a given  point.  Yet,  during  the  three  days,  not  a 
single  accident  of  any  kind  happened,  either  from  auto- 
mobiles, street  cars,  or  railroads.  Only  nine  drunken 
men  were  found  in  the  city,  out  of  the  210,000  people 
handled.  The  police  court  handled  on  these  three  days 
forty-eight  cases  of  all  kinds.  There  were  no  fights  and 
not  a single  unpleasant  or  disagreeable  feature  attended 
the  reunion.” 

There  are  certainly  some  other  American  cities  that 
would  be  greatly  benefited  by  the  same  kind  of  demoral- 
ization that  Prohibition  has  brought  to  Birmingham. 


THE  FACTS  ALL  AGAINST  THE  SALOON 

The  tide  for  Prohibition  sweeps  steadily  on  because  the 
facts  all  show  the  real  benefits  of  the  banishment  of  the 
saloon.  A western  writer  commenting  on  the  liquor  lies 
about  Prohibition  says;  “No  city.  State  or  nation  has 
ever  been  impoverished  by  abolishing  strong  drink.  By 
no  jugglery  of  facts  or  figures  can  the  average  citizen  be 
convinced  to-day  that  individual  or  national  wealth  or 
well-being  is  conserved  by  the  presence  of  the  traffic  in 
alcoholic  beverages  and  the  consequences  which  always 
results  therefrom.  Jugglers  may  juggle,  and  appetite, 
passion,  prejudice  and  greed  may  strive  to  postpone  the 


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final  departure  of  John  Barleycorn,  but  his  sentence  is 
pronounced  and  the  day  of  his  execution  can  not  long  be 
deferred.  ’ ’ 

THE  EMPIRE  BUILDER  AND  PROHIBITION 

The  truly  great  men  with  large  mental  girth  are  all 
coming  over  to  Prohibition.  Not  to  be  an  enemy  of  the 
liquor  saloon  to-day  is  to  put  one  in  the  discount  class. 
The  late  James  J.  Hill,  the  greatest  railroad  builder 
America  has  produced,  was  an  advocate  of  national  Pro- 
hibition. Professor  Irving  Fisher,  at  St.  Louis,  when  he 
brought  before  the  resolutions  committee  of  the  national 
Democratic  convention  the  party  platform,  said : “I  re- 
ceived a letter  from  Mr.  Hill  in  which  he  declared  that 
the  greatest  factor  in  the  promotion  of  crime,  disease  and 
poverty  in  this  nation  was  the  liquor  traffic,  and  that  he 
believed  national  Prohibition  was  the  best  solution  of  the 
problem.” 

Better  get  on  the  band-wagon,  brother ! 


KEEP  CONSCIENCE  ON  THE  JOB 

James  Whitcomb  Riley,  now  gone  over  to  the  great 
majority,  wrote  for  the  Century  an  illuminating  little 
homely  poem  about  conscience : 

Sometimes  my  Conscience,  says  he, 

“Don’t  you  know  me?” 

And  I,  says  I,  sheered  through  and  through, 

“Of  course  I do. 

You  are  a nice  chap  ever’  way, 

I’m  here  to  say! 

You  make  me  cry,  you  make  me  pray. 


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And  all  of  them  good  things  thataway — 

That  is,  at  night.  Where  do  you  stay 
Durin’  the  day?” 

And  then  my  Conscience  says  one’t  more, 

“You  know  me — shore?” 

“Oh,  yes,”  says  I,  a-tremblin’  faint, 

“You’re  jes’  a saint! 

Your  ways  is  all  so  holy-right, 

I love  you  better  ever’  night 

You  come  around — ’tel  plumb  daylight, 

When  you  air  out  o’  sight!” 

And  then  my  Conscience  sort  o’  grits 
His  teeth,  and  spits 

On  his  two  hands,  and  grabs,  of  course, 

Some  old  remorse. 

And  beats  me  with  the  big  butt-end 
O’  that  thing — ’tel  my  closest  friend 
’Ud  hardly  know  me.  “Now,”  says  he, 

“Be  keerful  as  you’d  orto  be 
And  alius  think  o’  me!” 

What  we  need  above  all  else  to  finish  up  the  saloon  in 
America  is  to  keep  the  American  conscience  right  on 
the  job. 


NO  JOSHUA  TO  MAKE  THE  PROHIBITION  SUN 
STAND  STILL 

“If  things  would  stay  as  they  are,  the  liquor  trade 
would  experience  a marvelous  prosperity,”  remarks 
Bonf art’s  Wine  and  Spirit  Circular.  “But,”  it  adds  as 


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an  after-thought,  'Things  do  not  promise  to  remain  as 
they  are.” 

No,  they  won’t  do  it,  brother.  The  Prohibition  sun 
will  move  right  on  until  it  dries  up  every  saloon  in  the 
land.  Cheer  up,  the  worst  is  yet  to  come  and  come 
quickly ! 


THE  TWO  MONEY  BAGS 

The  expense  account  of  the  saloon  to  the  State  is 
many  times  greater  than  the  boasted  revenue  account: 

“The  State  of  Massachusetts  has,  it  is  true,  a license 
bag.  In  this  bag  is  placed  the  license  revenue,  which 
last  year  amounted  to  $3,478,086.  But  the  State  has  to 
have  another  bag  out  of  which  it  takes  the  money  neces- 
sary to  pay  for  the  expense  caused  by  the  liquor  traffic, 
and  this  bag  is  more  than  three  times  as  large  as  the 
bag  containing  the  license  revenue.  The  official  report 
of  the  Commission  on  the  High  Cost  of  Living,  Chair- 
man, Hon.  Robert  Luce,  makes  the  following  declara- 
tion: ‘As  a matter  of  fact,  if  drink  were  to  be  held 
responsible  for  a proportion  of  the  public  payments — 
State,  county,  city  and  town — for  penal  institutions, 
police  departments,  the  judiciary,  asylums,  poorhouses, 
etc.,  as  well  as  for  private  charity,  corresponding  to 
the  proportion  that  liquor  bears  to  other  causes  of  con- 
viction and  commitment,  the  grand  total  of  expense  in 
Massachusetts  would  be  found  not  far  from  $10,000,000 
a year;  and  if  to  this  we  added  the  cost  of  disease  and 
death,  the  total  record  would  be  appalling.’  The  com- 
mission adds  to  this  the  statement:  ‘The  indmdual 
wastage  through  its  use  is,  of  course,  beyond  measure- 
ment, but  is  surely  enormous.  The  saloon  is  the  source 
of  our  greatest  economic  injury  and  private  misery.’ 


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Those  shrewd  Massachusetts  Yankees  ought  to  be  bet- 
ter traders  than  that. 

THE  MOTHERS  ws  THE  SALOON 

The  California  Congress  for  Mothers  came  out  for 
State-wide  Prohibition  in  these  ringing  tenns: 

“Whereas,  the  California  Congress  of  Mothers  holds 
the  welfare  of  the  child  to  be  of  paramount  importance 
to  the  State ; and, 

“Whereas,  scientific  investigation  has  shown  that  al- 
cohol in  any  form  is  destructive  to  the  physical,  mental 
and  moral  well-being  of  the  individual ; and, 

“Whereas,  any  temporary  financial  loss  will  be  more 
than  counterbalanced  by  the  gain  to  the  home  and  child ; 
therefore,  be  it 

“Resolved,  That  we  place  ourselves  upon  record  as 
an  organization  in  favor  of  the  movement  toward  the 
making  of  California  a dry  State.” 

When  we  remember  the  crucifixion  of  motherhood  at 
the  hands  of  the  saloon,  there  is  infinite  pathos  in  this 
incident. 


WOMAN  AND  HER  DEADLIEST  FOE 

Mrs.  Margaret  B.  Platt,  writing  in  the  Union  Signal 
of  the  heroic  fight  against  the  saloon  of  the  women  of 
America  during  the  last  forty  years,  puts  the  true 
woman’s  point  of  view  in  these  ringing  words:  “What 
has  the  saloon  or  its  vassals  done  to  make  the  world  bet- 
ter, to  elevate  moral  standards,  to  uplift  the  fallen, 
encourage  the  weak,  cheer  the  mourner,  make  childhood 
happy,  wreathe  the  wife’s  face  with  smiles,  put  a joyful 
light  in  her  eyes  and  a merry  lilt  in  her  voice?  What 


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has  it  done  to  lessen  poverty,  feed  the  hungry,  reduce 
the  need  of  jails  and  asylums,  promote  education  and  aid 
humanitarian  endeavor  ? Has  it  not  ever  been  a parasite 
enriching  itself  by  the  spoliation  of  its  victims? 

“If  there  is  any  defense  that  can  be  made  for  an  in- 
defensible satellite  of  perdition,  will  somebody  stand  up 
and  defend  the  saloon?  What  agreement  can  there  be 
between  woman  and  her  deadliest  foe  ? Only  that  agree- 
ment that  must  ever  exist  between  good  and  bad,  virtue 
and  vice,  right  and  wrong — persistent,  uncompromising, 
implacable  warfare.  The  two  must  be  ever  unalterably 
opposed;  and  by  as  much  as  woman  is  God’s  creation 
and  must  live  forever,  and  the  saloon  belongs  to  that 
underworld  from  which  came  its  inception,  let  us  hasten 
to  dispatch  it  to  its  proper  realm  that  the  world  may  be 
rid  of  its  horrors  and  civilization  proceed  with  righteous 
achievements  unhampered  by  its  destructive  rule.  The 
world  declared  the  Crusade  ‘heroic.’  What  then  is  the 
long-drawn  conflict  of  these  four  decades?  No  less  than 
sublime.  Woman  has  but  a little  longer  to  wait — then 
regnant  her  cause. 

“ ‘For  the  voice  of  warning  has  gone  abroad, 

The  time  is  ripe  for  the  hour  of  God.’  ” 

WHERE  THE  GRASS  GROWS  UNDER  PROHIBITION 

A western  banker  whose  town  has  had  no  saloons 
now  for  over  two  years  said  the  other  day : ‘ ‘ Before  we 
voted  out  the  saloons  we  were  told  that,  without  the 
liquor  business,  grass  would  grow  in  our  streets.  The 
prediction  has  come  true  in  one  particular — the  street 
that  leads  to  the  jail  is  overgrown  with  grass.” 

That  is  the  kind  of  grass  growing  we  can  stand  a lot 


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of  in  these  days.  Open  saloons  mean  full  jails.  There 
is  abundant  testimony  that  can  not  be  shaken  on  these 
points. 


A CITY  WITHOUT  DISORDER 

The  old-time  rum-ridden  city  full  of  riot  and  murder, 
a place  of  fear  and  shame,  bids  fair  to  pass  away  with 
the  overthrow  of  the  saloon.  The  leading  newspaper  of 
Everett,  Wash.,  commenting  on  the  result  of  Prohibi- 
tion, declares  that  “Everett  is  apparently  a city  with- 
out disorder.”  The  same  paper  goes  on  to  say:  “If 
not  the  oldest  inhabitant,  it  takes  one  who  has  lived  in 
Everett  a considerable  time  to  recollect  the  last  deed  of 
violence  perpetrated  within  the  corporate  limits.  Not  a 
single  case  of  burglary  has  been  reported  for  months, 
aside  from  petty  thefts  of  food;  not  a case  of  high- 
way robbery  has  occurred  for  a long  time ; more  serious 
crimes  have  not  been  called  to  the  attention  of  the  police 
department  for  six  months.  No  police  court  session  for 
three  days  shows  how  crime  is  reduced  to  a minimum ; it 
means  that  chronic  alcoholics  are  unable,  with  the  as- 
sistance rendered  the  police  department  by  druggists, 
to  obtain  their  brain-confusing  elixir.  This  improved 
condition  may  safely  be  ascribed  to  the  absence  of  drink- 
ing opportunities,  the  police  believe.  If  Everett  has, 
for  many  months,  been  fortunate  in  having  little  police 
trouble,  she  has  been  equally  fortunate  in  escaping 
disastrous  fires.  No  serious  fire  losses  have  occurred  for 
months.  ’ ’ 

Is  it  not  strange  that  any  city  would  dread  an  ex- 
perience like  that? 


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THE  SALOON  AND  THE  BOARD  OF  HEALTH 


Dr.  Haven  Emerson,  Health  Commissioner  of  New 
York  City,  the  largest  municipality  in  the  world,  says: 

“It  is,  as  I conceive  it,  the  duty  of  departments  of 
health  to  teach,  teach,  teach,  persuade,  demonstrate, 
exhibit,  exhort,  prove  that  alcohol  as  a beverage  or  in 
patent  medicines  is  a menace  to  personal  and  com- 
munity health,  is  a common  source  of  sickness  and  death, 
is  blocking  the  path  of  preventive  medicine,  and  is  a 
menace  to  the  physical  and  social  development  of  the 
nation.” 

You  see  if  the  liquor  people  don’t  make  a dead  set  at 
getting  control  of  the  health  boards  of  these  big  cities. 
The  saloon  can  not  long  endure  bombardment  from  every 
side,  such  as  it  is  getting  now. 


THE  HEALTHIEST  STATE  IN  THE  UNION 

In  December,  1915,  when  Mr.  W.  J.  V.  Deacon, 
Registrar  of  Vital  Statistics,  made  his  report  to  the 
director  of  the  Census  Bureau  at  Washington,  the 
figures  showed  that  the  death-rate  in  Kansas  that  year 
was  only  9.8  in  each  1,000  population,  which  was  the 
lowest  in  the  United  States.  I suppose  the  Government 
clerks  had  been  reading  some  of  the  brewery  lies,  so 
they  made  a special  investigation  to  try  to  break  the 
report  down,  but  found  everything  correct.  When  they 
wrote  Mr.  Deacon  asking  how  the  death-rate  of  Kansas 
happened  to  be  so  very  low,  he  replied : 

“Kansas  is  a Prohibition  State  and  has  been  for  a 
generation,  and  in  Kansas  Prohibition  really  prohibits. 
I do  not  mean  by  this  that  there  is  no  alcohol  consumed 
in  the  State,  but  the  absence  of  the  saloon  means  much 


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to  our  growing  young  men  and  boys  who,  in  the  absence 
of  the  bar-room,  find  more  healthful  pastimes  than  loafing 
in  an  alcohol-laden  atmosphere,  and  there  is  an  absence 
of  opportunity  to  poison  the  body  with  the  toxins  of 
alcohol  which  will  be  sure  to  show  in  those  organic 
diseases  which  are  known  to  be  affected  by  alcohol. 

“Another  and  more  important  effect  of  Prohibition 
is  that  the  wage  of  the  laborer  or  mechanic  is  not  dissi- 
pated, but  goes  to  supply  those  necessities  of  food,  cloth- 
ing and  housing  most  essential  to  the  well-being  of  their 
families  and  themselves. 

“The  intelligence  of  the  people  has,  in  my  opinion,  a 
direct  influence  upon  their  health.  There  is  a direct 
correlation  between  a low  rate  of  illiteracy  and  a low 
death-rate.  Kansas  has  an  illiteracy  rate  of  2.2 ; the 
people  are  intelligent,  and  for  many  years  the  Kansas 
State  Board  of  Health  and  allied  agencies  have  carried 
on  a propaganda  of  public  health  education  which  is 
bearing  fruit  in  the  saving  of  human  lives.” 


NAVY  WINE  GLASSES  AT  AUCTION 

Two  years  ago  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  ordered  all 
intoxicating  liquors  banished  from  the  Navy,  including 
the  officers’  mess,  and  now  comes  a new  order  from  the 
same  source  directing  the  cut-glass  wine  service  be- 
longing to  each  ship  to  be  sent  to  the  New  York  Navy 
Yard,  to  be  sold  at  auction.  Some  of  this  ware  has 
already  been  sold  at  20  per  cent,  of  its  cost.  The  cut- 
glass  was  the  best  that  could  be  bought  and  the  smallest 
glass  to  the  largest  decanter  bore  the  crest  of  the  United 
States  Navy.  This  cut-glass  auction  is  a mile-stone  along 
the  way  to  national  Prohibition. 


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LIQUOR  REVENUE  NOT  NEEDED 

Here  are  figures  given  by  a Russian  writer  of  great 
distinction  which  show  what  a negligible  thing  the 
boasted  liquor  revenue  is  after  all:  “The  Russian 
national  budget  during  the  year  1915  was  359,000,000 
rubles  from  direct  revenue,  813,000,000  rubles  from  in- 
direct revenue,  413,000,000  rubles  from  the  taxes, 

1 .030.000. 000  rubles  from  the  imperial  domain,  112,000,- 
000  rubles  from  the  Imperial  Bank  earnings  and 

251.000. 000  rubles  from  the  imperial  concessions  and 
mines.  And,  incidentally,  the  abolition  of  alcohol  has 
had  no  effect  whatsoever  on  the  budget,  altho  liquor 
supplied  600,000,000  rubles  of  revenue  annually.” 

THE  WAY  PROHIBITION  HAS  RUINED  ARIZONA 

A man  who  moved  to  California  to  escape  the  ruin  he 
thought  would  surely  come  to  Arizona  with  the  downfall 
of  the  saloon,  tells  how  his  fearful  dreams  were  realized : 
“Why,  man  alive,  haven’t  you  read?  Here’s  something 
I’ve  just  received.  Bobby  Bums,  the  Marshal  of 
Williams,  where  you  drop  off  the  Santa  Fe  to  go  to  the 
Grand  Canyon,  says  he  used  to  spend  his  time  wrestling 
with  drunks  and  thugs  in  the  gutters  and  now  he  rides 
in  an  auto  and  wears  a boiled  shirt.  He  says  he  can’t 
tell  a sheep-herder  now  from  a traveling  man.  They 
are  wearing  wrist-watches,  and  the  cow-punchers  shed 
their  horses  before  they  get  to  town  and  jerk  their  pants 
down  over  their  boots.  Listen  to  this,  the  saving  ac- 
counts of  the  State  banks  increased  nearly  a half  million 
dollars  in  eight  months  after  Prohibition  went  in.  The 
men  in  the  logging  camps  are  sending  cheeks  to  the 
banks  to  be  deposited  subject  to  their  orders,  something 


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scarcely  known  before.  An  examination  of  the  records 
in  the  sheriffs’  offices  and  city  police  stations  in  ten  wet 
counties  showed  that  in  1914  3,043  arrests  were  made 
for  drunkenness  during  the  first  six  months.  But  under 
Prohibition  in  1915,  in  the  same  counties  and  for  the 
same  length  of  time,  only  464  arrests  were  made  for  the 
same  cause — a decrease  of  2,579,  or  more  than  84  per 
cent. ; and  for  the  same  time  there  was  a decrease  of  29 
per  cent,  in  crime.  During  the  six  months  before 
Arizona  voted  dry  there  were  thirty  murders  in  the 
State.  During  the  last  eighteen  months  there  have  been 
only  six,  and  the  city  of  Prescott  did  not  have  a single 
arrest  for  three  months  last  summer.  "Wouldn’t  that 
blow  your  bonnet  off,  Mr.  Parson?  And  listen  to  this, 
the  Blazing  Star  and  the  Bucket  of  Blood,  noted 
gambling  places,  have  passed  out,  and  where  the  Fashion 
Gambling  House  stood  in  Tucson  is  now  a magnificent 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  building — think  of  that!” 

See  how  Prohibition  is  devastating  the  picturesque 
scenery  1 

THE  NEW  FARMERS’  BANK  IN  RUSSIA 

A Russian  writer  recently  recounts  one  of  the  most  re- 
markable developments  in  the  whole  history  of  political 
economy.  He  points  out  that  in  the  first  eighteen  months 
that  Russia  was  on  the  water-wagon  there  were  founded 
18,000  peasant  banks,  an  average  of  1,000  a month.  In 
addition  there  were  established  11,000  peasant  co- 
operative supply  stations  or  stores. 

These  peasant  banks  are  just  now  forming  a central 
administration,  a bank  of  banks,  in  Moscow,  composed 
of  delegates  from  provincial  banks.  The  government 
has  not  yet  been  able  to  grasp  the  whole  extent  of  these 


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peculiar  institutions  of  the  people,  both  sporadically 
and  suddenly  looming  up  as  something  gigantic  in 
national  economic  life.  The  cash  capital  of  these 
peasant  banks  amounts  to  500,000,000  rubles,  while  the 
value  of  their  accessories,  real  estate,  securities,  etc., 
reaches  1,000,000,000. 

The  fact  is  that  Prohibition  is  a financial  miracle- 
worker. 


IN  THE  MAD-DOG  CLASS 

Down  in  Georgia  the  other  day  an  energetic  sheriff 
seized  and  destroyed  a whole  carload  of  liquor  that 
had  been  shipped  over  the  Ocilla,  Pinebloom  & Valdosta 
Railroad.  He  was  sued  in  the  Federal  court,  but  they 
upheld  the  brave  sheriff  and  declared  “Whisky  is  in  the 
mad-dog  class,  and  anybody  has  a right  to  destroy  it 
whenever  found.”  Things  are  bound  to  find  their  level 
in  the  long  run.  Wliisky  has  evidently  “got  there”  in 
Georgia. 


BEER  DRINKING  AND  INSURANCE 

Here  is  what  the  New  York  officers  of  the  Home  Life 
Insurance  Company  have  to  say  about  beer  drinking. 
Somebody  please  show  this  to  Mr.  Hearst,  of  the  Hearst 
newspapers,  who  pretends  to  think  the  millennium 
would  come  if  we  just  had  a beer-drinking  world:  “Of 
all  the  intoxicating  drinks  it  is  the  most  animalizing. 
It  dulls  the  intellectual  and  moral  and  feeds  the  sensual 
and  beastly  nature.  Beyond  all  other  drinks  it  qualifies 
for  deliberate  and  unprovoked  crime.  In  this  respect  it 
is  much  worse  than  distilled  liquors.  A whisky  drinker 
will  commit  murder  only  under  the  direct  excitement 


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of  liquor;  a beer  drinker  is  capable  of  doing  it  in  cold 
blood.  Long  observations  have  assured  us  that  a large 
proportion  of  murders  deliberately  planned  and  exe- 
cuted without  passion  or  malice,  with  no  other  motive 
than  the  acquisition  of  property  or  money,  often  of 
trifling  value,  are  perpetrated  by  beer  drinkers.” 

Now,  that  is  not  a statement  of  a preachers’  meeting, 
but  of  cold-blooded  life  insurance  agents. 


PARALYZING  THE  BABIES 

New  York  City  has  recently  been  terribly  excited, 
and  rightly  so,  over  the  spread  of  the  disease  known  as 
“infantile  paralysis.”  By  the  time  two  hundred  babies 
had  been  destroyed,  a quarantine  was  on,  and  babies 
could  not  leave  the  city  without  special  passports. 

But  what  about  the  destruction  of  babies  through 
strong  drink  ? More  babies  are  over-laid  and  smothered 
to  death  by  drunken  parents  every  year  in  the  United 
States  than  the  worst  epidemic  of  this  new  disease  has 
ever  claimed.  Think  of  the  babies  who  are  born  de- 
fective or  crippled  or  idiots,  because  of  a drunken  father 
or  mother.  And  this  goes  on  year  in  and  year  out,  and 
tens  of  thousands  of  educated,  cultivated  people  are  not 
aroused  or  excited  about  it.  But  they  will  not  always 
sleep.  Thank  God,  more  people  are  awake  to  the  horrors 
of  drink  to-day  than  ever  before ! Let  us  continue  to 
sound  the  alarm. 

OHIO  AND  MAINE  IN  PARALLEL  COLUMNS 

When  you  are  looking  up  the  general  wealth  and 
comfort  of  a State,  it  is  not  only  the  aggregate  of  bank 
deposits  you  must  consider,  but  the  number  of  individual 


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depositors.  Then  you  will  find  that  the  universal  thrift 
and  prosperity  brought  about  by  Prohibition  shows  up 
clear  and  strong.  Take  Ohio  and  Maine : Ohio  is  a 
great  State.  It  has  a population  of  4,767,121,  over  six 
times  the  population  of  Maine.  On  June  23,  1915,  it 
had  115,241  depositors  in  its  savings  banks,  with 
$62,603,425.88  to  their  credit.  It  also  had  11,131  per- 
sons holding  Federal  tax  receipts  as  retail  liquor  sellers. 
The  figures  tell  the  story.  Maine  with  Prohibition  has 
more  than  twice  the  number  of  depositors  in  her  savings 
banks,  and  one-third  more  money  in  deposits  than  the 
great  State  of  Ohio  with  six  times  the  population  of 
IMaine. 


WHAT  THE  LIQUOR  MEN  THINK  OF  EACH  OTHER 

It  is  interesting  to  note  the  opinion  of  the  liquor 
sellers  for  each  other.  For  instance,  one  of  the  leading 
speakers  at  a recent  meeting  of  the  National  Liquor 
Dealers’  Association  had  this  to  say  about  his  brethren, 
the  brewers: 

“The  brewers  flagrantly  defy  both  law  and  order  in 
their  greed.  I have  known  them  to  encourage  violation 
of  the  law  on  the  part  of  the  retail  dealer.” 

When  you  wish  to  give  expression  to  a vehement  de- 
nunciation of  the  dram-shop  in  a temperance  address, 
don’t  wear  out  your  brain  cells  manufacturing  it,  take 
a ready-made  arraignment  from  the  Wholesalers’  and 
Retailers’  Review:  “Any  man  who  knows  the  saloons 
well  can  honestly  say  that  most  of  them  have  forfeited 
their  right  to  live.” 

If  you  want  something  a shade  stronger,  how  will 
this  do,  from  the  Champion  of  Fair  Play:  “There  is 


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not  a licensed  saloon-keeper  in  the  State  who  does  not  lay 
himself  liable  to  prosecution  a dozen  times  a day” — 
the  statement  referred  to  Illinois,  but  is,  of  course, 
equally  true  of  other  license  States. 

It  is  notorious  that  the  wealthy  brewers  and  distillers 
deliberately  choose  Prohibition  cities  in  which  to  build 
their  palatial  homes,  so  one  is  not  surprized  to  hear 
from  a writer  in  Bonf art’s  Wine  and  Spirit  Circular: 
“I  have  heard  a distiller  and  importer  say  that  he  would 
fight  to  the  last  ditch  any  attempt  to  establish  a saloon 
in  the  neighborhood  in  which  he  resides.  If  the  people 
engaged  in  the  business  feel  this  way  about  it,  they  can 
not  find  fault  with  others  offering  the  same  objection.” 

Surely  the  children  of  liquor  sellers  will  rise  up  and 
call  us  blest  for  taking  “father”  out  of  a business 
like  that. 


BOOZE  LOVES  THE  DARK 

Collier’s,  which  is  doing  heroic  service  for  the  cause 
of  Prohibition,  prints  this  striking  editorial  note  show- 
ing how  liquor  can  never  stand  being  seen  in  its  true 
colors:  “It  is  interesting  to  note  how  pleased  the 
saloon  men  always  are  whenever  they  can  get  some 
judge  or  clergyman  or  other  supposed  pillar  of  society 
to  stand  up  and  tell  them  that  they  are  engaged  in  a 
reputable  business.  The  honorable  or  reverend  remarks 
are  cheered  to  the  last  dregs  and  echoes  are  spread  at 
length  in  the  columns  of  the  booze-ad  papers.  This 
longing  for  reputable  endorsement  would  be  really 
funny  if  it  were  not  so  pathetic.  But  why  do  not  the 
bold  sons  of  alcohol  live  up  to  their  proclamations? 
John  Barleycorn  has  been  with  the  human  race  since 


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Noah’s  time,  but  his  standing  is  lower  to-day  among 
civilized  peoples  than  it  ever  has  been.  The  reason  is 
plain:  Facts  get  known  after  awhile,  and  intelligent 
folks  think  about  ’em.  Booze  has  to  lay  low,  for  it  is 
a twilight  trade  and  getting  darker.  ’ ’ 


OFFICIALS  ANSWER  THE  LIQUOR  UARS 

An  official  statement  has  been  recently  issued  by  M. 
Bark,  the  Russian  Minister  of  Finance,  in  answer  to 
the  liquor  lies  concerning  the  effect  of  Prohibition  in 
Russia,  which  says:  “Despite  war  expenses  amount- 
ing to  twelve  billion  rubles  and  thanks  to  the  abolition 
of  the  alcohol  monopoly,  the  financial  strength  of  the 
country  is  growing,  and  the  savings  in  the  banks  since 
the  beginning  of  the  war  have  increased  by  two  billion 
rubles.  ’ ’ 

Russia  is  willing  to  go  right  on  being  ruined  and 
impoverished  in  the  same  way. 


HOW  TO  AROUSE  THE  DEAF 

Sir  Robertson  Nicoll,  the  brilliant  editor  of  the  British 
Weekly,  made  recently  a most  striking  utterance  in  re- 
gard to  the  many  deaf  and  careless  citizens  of  Great 
Britain  who  are  shirking  the  calls  of  patriotism  in  these 
days  when  England  more  than  ever  in  all  her  history 
needs  that  every  Englishman  shall  do  his  duty.  Nearly 
every  word  in  this  strong  utterance  applies  with  equal 
pertinence  to  thousands  of  Americans  in  our  present 
great  war  against  the  saloon.  Dr.  Nicoll  says: 

“Martial  music  is  a challenge.  It  was  nevei*  more 
of  a challenge  than  it  is  to-day.  It  is  a challenge  to  the 


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enemy.  It  is  a rallying  of  the  soldier ’s  best  powers.  It 
is  a challenge  to  friends.  These  bands  in  our  streets 
are  summoning  every  man  who  can  fight  to  come  for- 
ward and  play  his  part.  We  have  had  much  reason  to 
be  proud  of  the  unhesitating  and  unreserved  sacrifice  of 
millions  among  our  countrymen.  The  test  has  been  ap- 
plied, and  many  have  met  it  bravely  and  triumphantly. 
They  have  sacrificed  everything,  and  they  have  done  it 
with  courage — nay,  with  joy  and  pride.  But  we  are 
still  far  short  of  the  number  that  will  fill  the  places  of 
the  disabled  combatants  and  give  us  the  strength  we 
need  to  carry  us  to  the  goal.  What  are  we  to  say  about 
those  who  are  still  standing  out  ? On  Saturday  in  parts 
of  London  one  might  walk  miles  without  seeing  a single 
young  man.  On  Sunday  and  on  Monday  they  were  in 
evidence  as  usual.  They  were  in  hiding  when  brave 
men  called  on  them  to  come  forward  for  their  country 
and  their  King.  But  when  the  appeals  were  over  they 
emerged  into  the  light.  What  is  to  be  done  with  them  ? 
That  is  the  question  which  will  tax  the  wisdom  of  our 
statesmen  and  our  rulers.  We  may  charitably  attribute 
much  of  this  flinching  and  shirking  to  an  unreasoning 
optimism,  to  the  thoughtlessness  of  youth,  to  causes 
which  do  not  involve  a shameful  cowardice.  But  what 
are  we  to  say  of  men  who  know  and  still  hold  out,  hold 
out  tho  the  news  comes  to  them  every  day  of  wounded 
and  dying  comrades,  hold  out  tho  they  have  heard  every 
call,  hold  out  simply  because  they  can  not  face  the  dis- 
comfort and  the  peril  of  the  soldier?  I have  tried  to 
think  myself  into  the  frame  of  men  like  this.  How  do 
they  meet  the  news  of  each  morning?  With  what  feel- 
ings do  they  read  the  burning  words  of  those  who,  to 
their  honor,  are  trying  to  rally  the  nation  to  that  whole- 


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hearted  effort  which  alone  will  save  it  ? I do  not  know. 
They  must  be  deaf,  they  must  be  callous.  Is  there  no 
way,  then,  of  scarifying  callosites,  of  making  the  deaf 
to  hear?” 


THE  CHEERFUL  FIGHTER 

It  is  the  merry  heart  full  of  love  and  good  will  for  all 
the  world  which  makes  the  best  fighter  in  the  long  run. 
Christ,  who  was  full  of  light  and  love  and  dauntless 
good  cheer,  was  the  greatest  fighter  against  wrong  in 
the  whole  race  of  man.  Do  not  lose  the  way  of  Laughter- 
town  if  you  would  keep  your  courage  ever  buoyant. 
Some  poet  sings: 

“A  laugh  is  just  like  sunshine. 

It  freshens  all  the  day. 

It  tips  the  peak  of  life  with  light. 

And  drives  the  clouds  away. 

The  soul  grows  glad  that  hears  it 
And  feels  its  courage  strong ; 

A laugh  is  just  like  sunshine. 

For  cheering  folks  along.  ’ ’ 


A SHAMEFUL  FACT 

The  editor  of  the  Christian  Advocate  of  New  York 
thus  calls  attention  to  one  of  the  most  shameful  facts 
in  our  American  civilization : ‘ ‘ Christian  Boston  still 

ships  cargoes  of  rum  to  the  Gold  Coast  of  Africa,  where 
devil-worship  is  undisguised.  The  casks  are  put  ashore 
and  the  captains  depart  with  precious  freights  of  mer- 
chandise to  make  Boston  owners  rich  and  able  to  live 
in  elegant  ease,  and  mayhap  endow  colleges  and  theo- 


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logical  seminaries.  But  look  at  the  other  side  of  the 
picture.  A missionary  lately  arrived  in  London  tells 
of  a ‘yam  feast’  in  his  village,  in  which  the  people  were 
so  heavily  supplied  with  New  England  rum  that  over 
thirty  persons  were  killed  in  the  drunken  orgy  that  re- 
sulted, and  the  British  Government  had  to  enforce  Pro- 
hibition for  a time  in  order  to  bring  the  villagers  to 
their  senses.  The  measures  by  which  our  Government 
and  others  have  been  trying  to  preserve  the  weak  native 
races  from  the  awful  ravages  of  alcohol  do  not  meet  the 
needs  of  the  case.” 


THE  SALOON-KEEPER’S  BET 

The  Rev.  Patrick  Murphy,  of  Dalhart,  Texas,  who  has 
done  heroic  and  valuable  service  in  many  State-wide 
campaigns  for  Prohibition,  brings  out  with  graphic 
clearness  the  fact  that  saloon-keepers  gamble  against 
the  money,  the  happiness  and  home  of  the  drinker.  He 
says:  “The  strongest  argument  against  the  saloon  is 
a moral  argument.  The  strongest  argument  in  favor 
of  the  saloon  is  a business  argument.  Let  us  analyze  it. 
The  most  energetic  promoters  of  drunkenness  to-day  are 
those  who  have  money  invested  in  the  business  and  who 
want  to  make  it  pay.  That  promoter  may  be  the  owner 
of  the  brewery  or  the  wholesale  agent  of  the  distiller. 
These  men  may  not  want  to  make  a drunkard  of  a man 
for  fun,  for  there  is  no  fun  in  it.  But  they  have  their 
money  up  against  the  happiness  of  your  home,  against 
the  good  name  and  the  honor  of  your  child,  against  your 
own  immortal  soul,  and  they  would  rather  see  you  lose 
than  lose  themselves.  They  may  not  have  started  into 
the  business  to  do  harm  by  it,  but  the  evil  spirit  that 


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is  in  the  business  has  taken  hold  of  them.  It  is  a bad 
business,  and  it  makes  them  bad.  They  want  10,  20,  50 
per  cent,  on  their  investment.  And  when  you  offer 
them  your  money,  they  do  not  care  whether  your  blood 
is  on  it  or  not.  They  want  it  and  must  have  it.  That 
is  how  it  comes  that  one  of  the  worst  elements  in  this 
country  is  engaged  in  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  in- 
toxicating drinks.” 


THE  ART  OF  BEING  A CHEERFUL  COMRADE 

People  who  fight  daily  and  through  long  years  for 
reform  and  who  wield  the  sword  against  evil  need  to 
keep  watch  over  themselves  lest  they  become  cynical  and 
sour-spirited.  We  lose  half  our  strength  when  we  cease 
to  be  sweet  and  wholesome.  Every  one  of  us  should 
strive  not  only  to  be  right,  but  beautifully,  charmingly 
right.  Some  poet  puts  it  in  the  following  most  at- 
tractive lines: 

“Do  any  hearts  beat  faster. 

Do  any  faces  brighten. 

To  hear  your  footstep  on  the  stair. 

To  meet  you,  to  greet  you,  anywhere? 

Are  you  so  like  your  Master 
Dark  shadows  to  enlighten? 

Are  any  happier  to-day 

Through  words  that  they  heard  you  say? 

Life  were  not  worth  the  living 
If  no  one  were  the  better 
For  having  met  you  on  the  way. 

And  known  the  sunshine  of  your  stay.” 


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THE  AFTER.PRODUCTS  OF  PROHIBITION 

Judge  Laugguth  of  the  Portland,  Oregon,  Police 
Court,  is  reported  by  the  Oregonian  to  have  said: 
“Many  of  the  old  topers  are  swearing  off  and  are  con- 
sequently not  coming  back  before  this  court.  The  city 
is  in  better  shape,  I suppose,  than  it  has  been  for  forty 
years,  as  a result  of  the  closing  of  the  saloons.” 

In  the  same  paper  a despatch  from  Pendleton  says: 
‘ ‘ That  Prohibition  has  done  much  to  lessen  the  drinking 
among  the  Indians  as  well  as  the  whites  is  home  out  by 
a compilation  of  figur.es  from  the  city  recorder’s  office. 
During  the  first  six  months  of  1915  there  were  173 
Indians  arrested  for  drunkenness.  The  first  six  months 
of  this  year  there  have  been  only  thirty  arrests  made 
among  the  red  men  for  this  offense.” 

Prohibition  will  rapidly  spoil  these  old-time  topers  for 
saloon  purposes.  But  think  how  much  better  they  will 
be  for  all  worthy  purposes ! 


DOWN  WITH  THE  WHISKY  SPIDERS 

My  dear  friend,  long  ago  gone  over  to  the  great 
majority,  who  was  ever  fearlessly  ready  to  break  a 
lance  against  every  public  evil  in  a day  when  it  was 
not  so  popular  to  fight  the  saloon  as  now,  wrote  with 
characteristic  insight  and  wit  of  the  whisky  spiders : 

“Whisky  spiders,  great  and  greedy. 

Weave  their  webs  from  sea  to  sea; 

They  grow  fat  and  men  grow  needy: 

Shall  our  robbers  rulers  be? 


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‘ ‘ ‘ Sweep  the  webs  away  ! ’ the  nation, 

In  its  wrath  and  wisdom  cries ; 

Say  the  fools  with  hesitation : 

‘No — but  educate  the  flies.’ 

“We  do  both — twin  wings  who  sunders! 

Let  the  schools  fill  out  their  sphere ! 

Let  the  church  sound  seven  thunders, 

But  the  webs  must  disappear. 

“Up!  the  webs  are  full  of  slaughter; 

Sweep  away  the  spider’s  lair; 

Up ! wife,  husband,  son  and  daughter, 

Make  the  vexed  earth  clean  and  fair. 

“Where  now  red-fangled  murder  burrows. 

Let  glad  harvests  wave  sublime. 

Sink  the  webs  beneath  new  furrows 
In  the  boundless  fields  of  time.” 

THE  TRANSFORMATION  OF  THE  FARMERS 

Ivan  Narodny,  secretary  of  the  Russian-Asiatic  Cor- 
poration, who  in  all  probability  knows  as  much  about 
Russia  as  the  American  liquor  papers,  has  this  to  say: 
“The  abolition  of  alcohol  in  Russia  has  increased  the 
wealth  of  the  peasant  communities  65  per  cent.  The 
deposits  of  the  peasant  communities  have  increased  to 
1,000,200,000  rubles;  criminality  has  decreased  38  per 
cent. ; the  moujiks  have  suddenly  been  transformed 
into  civilized  men,  and  the  general  welfare  of  the  masses 
is  90  per  cent,  better  than  ever  before.  The  Russian 
people  have  become  over-night  industrious,  independent 
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“ ‘As  long  as  I am  ruler  of  Russia,  vodka  will  never 
be  sold  in  my  empire  again,’  said  the  Czar  recently  to  a 
delegation  of  peasants  who  had  come  to  assure  their 
ruler  how  beneficial  the  abolition  had  been  to  them. 

“Despite  war,  bad  crops,  increased  taxes  and  lack  of 
commodities,  Russia  was  never  so  prosperous,  so  con- 
scious of  her  power  and  so  united,  from  the  last  moujik 
to  the  Czar,  as  now.  The  Russian  village  during  the 
two  years  of  abolition  has  changed  so  much  that  you 
would  not  recognize  it.  Famine  has  disappeared  alto- 
gether, slovenly  children,  and  women  are  drest  neatly, 
beggars  have  vanished  with  the  pilgrim  monks,  with  the 
picturesque  vagabonds  and  ‘bassaks.’  ” 

A POPULAR  PLEDGE 

The  Philadelphia  Quartz  Company  has  been  so 
plagued  by  the  drinking  habits  of  some  of  its  working 
men  that  it  has  started  a pledge-signing  campaign 
which  has  won  the  day.  The  company  offered  its  em- 
ployees 10  per  cent,  increase  if  they  would  agree  not  to 
use  liquor  and  to  keep  away  from  the  saloons.  Ninety- 
nine  per  cent,  of  the  men  saw  the  point  and  signed  the 
pledge  at  once.  The  managers  say  they  can  well  afford 
to  pay  the  extra  10  per  cent,  to  have  sober  workmen. 
The  saloon  is  doomed. 


TAXES  AGAIN! 

That  tax  shoe  pinches,  so  we  have  to  keep  exposing 
the  saloon  lies  about  it.  In  telling  of  the  improvement 
in  Stoughton,  Wis.,  under  Prohibition,  F.  J.  Vea,  presi- 
dent of  the  Stoughton  Wagon  Works,  explains  that  in 


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the  last  year  of  the  saloon  in  that  city,  the  tax  rate  was 
25  mills.  He  continues: 

“In  1914  the  tax  rate  was  16.9  mills  despite  the  fact 
that  Stoughton  had  undergone  more  public  improve- 
ments than  in  any  seven  years  of  the  wet  regime.  We 
paid  the  bonds  for  the  city  hall,  built  an  $80,000  high 
school,  installed  new  sewers  and  built  cement  walks  and 
paved  streets.  The  city  owns  its  two  electric  light  and 
power  plants.  Through  all  this  public  improvement  the 
tax  rate  has  decreased  instead  of  increased.” 

Why  not  help  spoil  your  town  that  same  way  ? 

THE  TAXLAYER  vs.  THE  TAXPAYER 

There  are  two  things  that  a citizen  can  not  escape — 
one  is  death  and  the  other  taxes.  The  liquor  saloon  is 
never  a taxpayer  so  far  as  the  general  public  is  con- 
cerned, but  always  a taxlayer.  A Massachusetts  com- 
mission appointed  to  investigate  the  question  of  the  in- 
crease of  criminals,  mental  defectives,  epileptics  and 
degenerates,  recently  reported  as  follows: 

“It  is  the  belief  of  this  commission,  based  on  long 
personal  observation,  that  the  abuse  of  alcohol,  directly 
and  indirectly,  does  more  to  fill  our  prisons,  insane  hos- 
pitals, institutions  for  the  feeble-minded  and  alms- 
houses than  all  other  causes  combined.” 

This  is  not  the  utterance  of  sentimental  temperance 
fanatics,  or  Prohibition  cranks,  but  the  calm,  deliberate 
statement  of  conservative  investigators,  in  an  official 
report  to  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  State.  The  Prohibition  of  the  beverage  liquor  traffic, 
by  removing  the  cause  of  drunkenness  and  crime,  would 
necessarily  lighten  the  burdens  of  the  taxpayer. 


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Crime  and  drink  go  hand  in  hand,  and  in  producing 
the  greater  part  of  the  crime  of  the  country  drink  in- 
flicts upon  the  nation  terrible  losses,  and  upon  the  tax- 
payer burdens  heavy  and  grievous.  The  actual  cost  of 
dealing  with  the  criminals  manufactured  by  the  saloon 
is  very  large.  First,  the  cost  of  maintaining  the 
criminals  is  in  itself  a large  item.  Next  comes  the  ex- 
pense of  an  increased  police  force  ta  deal  with  the  saloon- 
made  criminals.  In  addition  to  this,  there  are  the 
salaries  of  judges,  law  officers  and  others,  and  the  extra 
cost  of  building  and  supporting  law  courts  and  prison 
buildings.  In  the  report  made  by  the  commission  to 
investigate  drunkenness  in  Massachusetts  in  1914,  Chair- 
man, Hon.  Judge  Murray,  the  following  statement  is 
made  as  to  the  cost  of  drunkenness : 

“It  is  impossible  to  estimate  in  dollars  the  yearly 
cost  of  drunkenness  to  the  commonwealth.  The  ex- 
penditure for  penal  treatment  is  but  a small  fraction  of 
the  total  cost,  yet  the  expense  arising  from  63.4  per  cent, 
of  all  arrests,  and  67.6  per  cent,  of  all  commitments  to 
prison  made  during  the  year,  together  with  a consider- 
able percentage  of  the  cost  of  probation,  trial  and  trans- 
portation of  prisoners,  is  due  to  public  drunkenness. 
Moreover,  the  intemperate  use  of  alcohol  is  directly  re- 
sponsible for  many  other  criminal  offenses  which  are 
brought  into  the  court.  Massachusetts  prison  statistics 
show  that  96  per  cent,  of  all  criminals  in  our  prisons  in 
1912  were  intemperate  by  habit.” 

Facts  like  these,  which  are  properly  authenticated 
and  can  not  be  gainsaid,  prove  conclusively  the  de- 
structive character  of  the  liquor  traffic,  and  should  ap- 
peal to  every  decent  citizen  to  enlist  in  the  warfare 
against  it.  Lessened  crime,  decreased  taxation,  national 


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prosperity  and  good  citizenship  would  naturally  foUow 
the  extinction  of  the  relic  of  barbarism  known  as  the 
liquor  traffic. 


WOUNDS  AND  DEATH  IN  THE  DRINK 

The  Pittsburgh  Steel  Company,  with  a monthly  pay- 
roll of  $300,000,  recently  wrote  an  appeal  to  the  judges 
of  their  county  protesting  against  licensing  saloons,  in 
which  they  said: 

“We  have  experienced  a growing  inefficiency  and  an 
increased  carelessness  in  the  mills,  resulting  in  accidents 
and  deaths,  largely  attributable  to  the  excessive  use  of 
beer,  whisky,  and  other  alcoholic  drinks.  This  evil  has 
been  growing  rapidly,  until  our  company  has  been  com- 
pelled to  impose  restrictions  on  our  men  as  to  the  use  of 
liquors,  with  some  beneficial  results;  but  the  safety  of 
our  men  and  the  efiicient  conduct  of  our  business  can 
not  be  attained  unless  a radical  change  in  such  habits 
can  be  secured.” 

It  is  incidents  like  this  which  are  giving  the  liquor 
people  to  understand  that  it  is  no  longer  a few  preachers 
and  white  ribbon  women  they  have  to  fight.  The 
preachers  and  the  women  are  still  in  the  fight  more 
powerful  than  ever,  but  behind  them  is  mobilizing  the 
great  army  of  business  men.  The  saloon  must  go ! 

THE  POST-OFFICE  PROSPERS  WHEN  THE  SALOON 

DIES 

Here  is  a significant  item  of  news  from  Denver,  Colo- 
rado: 

‘ ‘ For  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the  Denver  post- 
office  the  receipts  for  a year  passed  the  million  and  a 


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half  line,  and  this  was  under  Prohibition,  and  due  en- 
tirely to  the  general  increase  of  business  prosperity 
throughout  the  city,  and  not  to  any  one  particular  cause. 
The  post-office  records  show  receipts  for  the  year  ending 
June  30,  1916,  amounting  to  $1,500,411.07,  an  increase 
of  $110,560.89,  or  7.9  per  cent,  over  those  for  last  year. 
For  the  quarter  ending  June  30, 1916,  receipts  amounted 
to  $383,343.20,  an  increase  of  $53,212.46,  or  15.8  per 
cent,  over  the  same  quarter  of  last  year,  while  for  the 
month  of  June  the  largest  per  cent,  of  increase  is  noted 
— $130,218.67  total  receipts  for  the  month,  an  increase 
of  $18,160.24,  or  16.2  per  cent,  over  the  receipts  for 
June,  1915.” 

I wonder  how  many  more  letters  were  written  home 
to  father  and  mother  by  absent  sons  who,  under  the  new 
regime  of  sobriety,  harked  back  to  the  dear  ones 
neglected.  Every  good  impulse  has  a better  chance 
when  the  saloon  goes. 

SAVE  THE  BOY! 

Brother,  save  the  boy — 

City  boy  and  country  boy. 

High  and  low,  smart  and  slow. 

Boulevard  and  beggar  row. 

Growing  up  for  weal  or  wo. 

Save  the  boy. 

Brother,  save  the  boy — 

City  boy  and  country  boy. 

Save  his  mind  and  make  it  pure ; 

Power  to  conquer  evil  lure. 

Power  to  think,  decide,  endure, 

Save  the  boy. 


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Brother,  save  the  boy — 

City  boy  and  country  boy. 

Save  his  soul  and  make  it  white, 

By  the  Way,  the  Truth,  the  Light, 

Helping  God  and  man  unite, 

Save  the  boy. 

Brother,  save  the  boy — 

City  boy  and  country  boy. 

Father,  mother,  sister,  friend. 

Try  once  more,  then  try  again. 

Persevere  unto  the  end. 

Save  the  hoy. 

National  Prohibition  of  the  liquor  saloon  will  do 
more  to  save  the  boy,  and  his  sister,  too,  than  any  other 
one  thing  we  can  do. 


A COSTLY  PIECE  OF  RIBBON 

The  editor  of  the  Union  Signal  tells  a good  story 
which  had  its  setting  in  a State  noted  for  its  large  brew- 
ing interests.  In  one  of  its  largest  cities,  a modest  but 
earnest-hearted  white  ribboner  carries  on  a confectionery 
business  in  a school  district.  Among  her  patrons  is  a 
son  of  a director  of  one  of  the  hig  breweries.  One  day 
he  entered  her  little  store  and  after  taking  a survey  of 
her  stock  to  select  his  purchase,  turned  laughingly  to  her 
and,  pointing  to  her  white  ribbon  pin,  said,  with  a chal- 
lenge in  his  eyes : ‘ ‘ Do  you  know  how  much  that  little 
pin  of  yours  cost  my  daddy  last  year?”  The  white 
ribboner  smiled  and  replied,  “Not  a cent;  I paid  for 
that  out  of  my  own  pocket-hook.”  “Oh,  you  know  what 
I mean,”  persisted  the  boy.  “We  had  a pow-wow  up 


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at  our  house  last  night — I mean  a meeting  of  the  board 
of  directors  of  the  brewery — and  dad  said  this  morning 
that  the  white  ribbon  you  women  wear  cost  him  just 
$60,000  last  year.” 

NO  ONE  LEFT  TO  LOVE  HIM 

Both  the  Republican  and  Democratic  parties  in  Iowa 
have  come  out  squarely  for  Prohibition.  It  took  twenty 
years  in  Kansas  to  get  all  political  parties  behind  the 
Prohibition  law,  and  this  quick  action  in  Iowa  is  a sig- 
nificant sign  of  the  spirit  among  the  American  people 
these  days.  Poor  old  John  Barleycorn,  like  the  ragged 
old  hobo  he  is,  goes  wandering  about  with  no  one  left  to 
^/love  him.  But  he  has  made  hoboes  like  that  out  of  many 
good  men  and  richly  deserves  his  fate. 

A PUBLIC  DOPE  SHOP 

Never  was  there  a more  suggestive  phrase  coined  to 
describe  the  average  liquor  saloon,  as  it  is  to-day,  than 
that  recently  used  by  Dr.  J.  N.  Hurty,  secretary  of  the 
Indiana  State  Board  of  Health.  In  a recent  address  he 
said: 

“We  know  that  alcoholic  liquor  is  a vile  and  evil 
thing.  It  is  a horrible  thing  from  an  economic  and 
social  point  of  view;  it  is  always  and  everywhere  in- 
jurious from  the  physical  standpoint.  Every  drop  is  a 
poison.  Its  use  is  always  injurious,  and  if  I had  the 
power  I would  close  every  public  saloon  as  a public 
dope  shop.” 

Why  should  we  license  “public  dope  shops”  to  under- 
mine the  health  of  our  people  ? 


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FORTY-THREE  PER  CENT. 

The  medical  directors  ol  three  great  American  life  in- 
surance companies  estimate  that  from  7 to  40  per  cent, 
of  accidents  are  due,  either  directly  or  indirectly,  to 
alcohol.  Seven  per  cent,  of  railway  accidents,  8 per 
cent,  of  street  car  accidents,  10  per  cent,  of  automobile 
accidents,  8 per  cent,  of  those  due  to  vehicles  and  horses, 
43  per  cent,  of  heat  prostrations  and  sunstrokes,  7 per 
cent,  of  machinery  accidents,  8 per  cent,  of  all  accidents 
in  mines  and  quarries,  13  per  cent,  of  drownings,  and 
10  per  cent,  of  gunshot  wounds,  are  sustained,  either  in 
whole  or  in  part,  because  of  alcohol. 

"When  you  spread  these  tragic  facts  all  over  the 
United  States,  among  the  activities  of  a hundred  million 
people,  the  mind  is  staggered  at  the  misery  and  anguish 
and  loss  entailed  by  the  saloon  curse. 

A BEAUTIFUL  INCIDENT 

The  Union  Signal  tells  this  interesting  story  of  a 
beautiful  incident  which  occurred  last  Decoration  Day: 

“The  last  of  the  graves  of  veterans  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic  in  beautiful  Rose  Hill  Cemetery 
had  been  decorated  with  spring  blossoms  and  still  there 
remained  an  abundance  of  flowers.  In  the  near  distance 
gleamed  the  granite  slab  that  marks  the  ‘tent  of  green’ 
of  Frances  E.  Willard.  ‘Let  us  place  these  blossoms  on 
the  grave  of  one  of  the  greatest  women  patriots  the 
world  has  known,’  was  the  suggestion  of  one  gray- 
bearded  blue  coat,  and  with  enthusiasm  the  little  com- 
pany of  G.  A.  R.  veterans  turned  their  footsteps  to  the 
sacred  mound  and  placed  beside  the  other  tributes  of 
love  which  adorned  it  their  offering  of  reverence  for  one 


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who  served  her  country  devotedly  to  the  last  hour  of 
her  life.  ’ ’ 

Nothing  could  have  been  more  appropriate.  America 
has  produced  no  man,  not  even  excepting  Abraham 
Lincoln,  who  lived  and  died  with  more  loyal  patriotism 
than  Prances  Willard. 


THE  REGENERATION  OF  THE  RUSSIAN  FARMER 

An  English  writer,  recently  traveling  in  Russia,  tells 
this  wonderful  story  of  the  conditions  of  life  among 
the  farmers: 

“A  large  volume  might  be  written  on  the  question 
as  to  whether  a man — a drunkard — must  always  be 
allowed  to  exercise  his  own  volition  or  whether  he  ought 
to  be  saved  from  the  evils  of  drink  by  having  facilities 
for  drinking  removed  from  his  path.  The  Russian 
peasant  has  no  doubt  about  it.  He  wants  to  have  vodka 
prohibited  so  that  there  may  be  no  temptation  to  assail 
him ; and  that  fact  is  one  which  we  should  bear  in  mind, 
especially  when  the  argument  is  made  in  England  that 
prohibition  of  the  sale  of  spirits  is  an  interference  with 
the  liberty  of  the  subject.  We  do  not  interfere  with  the 
liberty  of  the  subject  to  do  good  to  others  or  to  himself, 
but  we  ought  always  to  recognize  the  principle  of  the 
right  to  interfere  with  the  subject  when  he  is  doing 
harm  to  others  or  to  himself;  and  in  drinking  spirits, 
certainly  in  quantity — and  personally  I think  any  spirits 
at  all — a man  is  doing  harm  to  himself  and  to  others. 

“Then  comes  the  question  of  the  effect  of  drunken- 
ness on  the  one  hand  and  temperance  on  the  other  on 
the  women  and  children  of  Russia.  The  women  were 
never  so  addicted  to  drunkenness  as  the  men.  Ten  per 


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cent,  of  the  drinking  is  done  by  women  and  90  per  cent, 
by  men.  The  direct  result  of  the  temperate  habits  of  the 
Russian  women  is  that  the  children  are  born  exceedingly 
healthy — except  in  certain  districts.  Since  the  prohibi- 
tion of  vodka  the  money  which  before  the  war  had  been 
spent  in  drink  has  been  used  to  clothe  and  feed  and 
save  the  children,  with  the  result  that  a larger  number 
of  children  have  been  saved.  Then  they  have  more 
clothes  and  more  food.  There  is  to-day  much  prosperity 
in  the  villages,  even  if  in  certain  towns  there  is  need. 
It  is  a curious  paradox,  but  it  is  not  possible  to  persuade 
the  peasants  to  sell  their  produce  to  the  towns,  simply 
because  the  peasants  do  not  want  the  money!  Conse- 
quently, butter  and  eggs  and  other  farm  produce  which 
should  go  to  feed  the  big  cities  are  being  consumed  in 
the  villages.  That  is  rather  hard  on  the  towns,  but  it 
necessarily  means  more  health  and  life  in  the  villages, 
and  probably  a new  horizon.” 


A DANGER  POINT  IN  SOUTH  DAKOTA 

Mrs.  Laura  LaManee,  who  has  been  campaigning  in 
South  Dakota  in  the  interest  of  the  Prohibition  amend- 
ment, points  to  a danger  point  in  that  State  that  needs 
to  be  given  serious  attention.  Mrs.  LaManee  says  that 
■in  1890  South  Dakota  had  two  propositions  on  the 
ballots.  One  was  to  enfranchise  the  women,  the  other 
was  to  give  the  ballot  to  the  Indians  who  embraced 
citizenship.  Woman  suffrage  was  voted  down,  but  the 
Indians  were  enfranchised.  The  Indians  never  wanted 
suffrage,  never  asked  for  it,  and  they  rarely  use  it  except 
when  some  crafty  politician  gives  a roast  ox  barbecue, 
smuggles  in  plenty  of  firewater  and  winks  at  gambling 


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and  debauchery.  At  these  demoralizing  pow-wows 
Indians  are  cajoled  into  giving  or  selling  their  votes  to 
the  party  that  feasted  them.  The  liquor  men  have  a 
plan  on  foot  to  give  a series  of  these  disgraceful  feasts 
and  get  influential  wet  men  to  swing  the  Indians  into 
line. 

Let  the  South  Dakota  Prohibitionists  take  warning. 


NATIONAL  PROHIBITION  WILL  DO  IT! 

Mr.  Thomas  D.  West,  president  of  the  American 
Foundry  men’s  Association,  as  well  as  of  the  West  Steel 
Casting  Company,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  recently  said: 

“I  am  seeking  assistance  that  would  help  drive  back 
saloons  from  manufacturing  and  industrial  establish- 
ments. For  the  past  five  or  six  years  I have  been  going 
through  an  experience  that  has  been  costly  to  our  firm 
and  injurious  in  creating  an  appetite  for  drink  with 
workmen,  but  have  finally  ended  it  by  buying  the  saloon 
which  caused  our  troubles.  This  saloon  was  close  to  our 
office  and  gate  entrance.  We  have  paid  four  times  the 
value  of  the  property  in  order  to  become  proprietors  and 
close  it  up. 

“I  know  of  no  greater  injury  and  injustice  that  can  be 
brought  to  a manufacturer  than  by  having  saloons  close 
enough  to  be  a standing  temptation  for  workmen  to 
steal  out  and  obtain  intoxicants.  I am  urging  the  Ameri- 
can Foundrymen’s  Association  to  assist  in  persuading 
our  State  Legislatures  to  pass  laws  which  will  absolutely 
prohibit  the  operation  of  saloons  within  500  to  1,000  feet 
of  any  foundry,  mill,  or  industrial  establishment. 

“I  believe  that  if  a vote  of  all  workmen  were  taken, 
70  per  cent,  of  them  would  favor  keeping  saloons  well 


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back  from  workshops,  and  would  prefer  the  drinking  of 
non-intoxicants  during  working  hours  and  at  lunch 
time  rather  than  beverages  that  befog  their  brains.  The 
readiness  with  which  employees  have  taken  to  drinking 
milk  sustains  me  in  this  belief.  ’ ’ 

There  is  no  place  for  a liquor  saloon.  Let  us  just 
push  it  off  the  earth  it  has  defiled  into  the  Hades  where 
it  belongs. 


BABIES  OR  BOOZE  — WHICH? 

Here  is  the  ringing  bulletin  sent  out  to  the  denizens 
of  Manhattan  by  the  Health  Board  of  New  York  City: 
“You  don’t  need  alcohol  for  health;  you  don’t  need  it 
for  strength ; you  don ’t  need  it  for  drink.  It  never  does 
you  any  good ; it  always  does  you  harm.  Let  it  alone ; 
get  on  the  water-wagon ! 

“Do  you  love  babies?  You  can  not  drink  liquor  and 
have  strong  babies.  Sickening  liquor  or  healthy  babies — 
which  ? Take  your  choice.  ’ ’ 

There  is  not  much  comfort  for  the  saloon  in  that. 


WHO  IS  SCARED  ABOUT  TAXES? 

The  farmer  or  business  man  who  is  afraid  of  Prohi- 
bition for  fear  his  taxes  will  go  up,  wants  to  read.  West 
Virginia  reduces  her  tax  rate  from  14  cents  to  10  cents 
on  a hundred  dollars. 

The  tax  rate  in  Rockford,  111.,  in  1914  was  lower  than 
any  other  city  in  the  State  having  more  than  15,000 
people,  except  Jacksonville,  and  Jacksonville  has  been 
dry  two  years  longer  than  Rockford. 

No,  brother,  the  tax  boot  is  on  the  other  foot. 


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AN  OFFICIAL  CONVERT’S  TESTIMONY 

Not  long  ago,  Hi  Gill  ran  a wide-open  town  in  Seattle, 
where  he  was  mayor.  He  was  recalled  and  disgraced  by 
an  aroused  citizenship.  Convinced  later  of  a radical 
change  in  him,  he  was  re-elected  mayor,  and  is  enforcing 
the  Prohibition  law.  He  was  asked  the  other  day : 

“What  is  the  most  striking  feature  of  the  change  in 
conditions  under  Prohibition,  Mr.  Mayor,  in  your  per- 
sonal and  official  experience?” 

His  instant  reply  was:  “Under  license  I had  at  least 
a half-dozen  appeals  every  day  from  men  and  women — 
chiefly  women — who  were  in  distress  of  some  kind  be- 
cause of  booze.  I have  had  only  one  such  case  since  the 
first  of  the  year.  That’s  evidence  enough  for  me  of  the 
benefits  of  Prohibition!” 

CORDIALS  IN  THE  FATHER  BREED  BRANDY  IN 
THE  SON 

There  is  marvelous  significance  in  this  startling  poster 
which  is  posted  at  every  post-office  in  the  entire  French 
nation.  What  do  our  liquor  brothers,  who  have  been 
quoting  France  to  us,  have  to  say  to  it  ? Here  it  is : 

THE  ALARM 

TO  FRENCH  WOMEN  AND  TO  YOUNG  FRENCHMEN: 

Drink  is  as  much  your  enemy  as  Germany. 

Since  1870  it  has  cost  France  in  men  and  money  much 
more  than  the  present  war. 

Drink  tickles  the  palate;  but  it  is  a real  poison  that 
destroys  your  constitution. 

Drinkers  age  quickly.  They  lose  half  their  normal  life, 
and  fall  easy  victims  to  many  infirmities  and  illnesses. 


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The  cordials  of  your  parents  reappear  in  their  otf- 
spring  as  great  hereditary  evils.  France  owes  to  cor- 
dials a great  many  mad  men  and  women  and  consump- 
tives, without  counting  sufferers  from  gout,  scrofula, 
rickets,  premature  softening  of  the  tissues,  and  most  of 
our  criminals. 

Drink  decreases  by  two-thirds  our  national  produc- 
tion ; it  raises  the  cost  of  living  and  increases  poverty. 

Mothers,  young  men,  young  girls,  wives:  Up  and 
act  against  drink  in  memory  of  those  who  have  gloriously 
died  or  suffered  wounds  for  the  Fatherland!  You  will 
thus  accomplish  a mission  as  grandiose  as  that  of  our 
heroic  soldiers. 

THE  PLACE  TO  GET  MONEY 

President  Emeritus  Eliot  of  Harvard  University  puts 
the  United  States  liquor  bill  at  two  billion  and  two  hun- 
dred million  dollars  a year.  That  gold  stream  turned  in 
the  right  direction  would  give  us  fifty  dreadnaughts 
every  year,  pay  all  the  expenses  of  an  army  as  large  as 
the  most  enthusiastic  preparedness  statesman  desires, 
do  away  with  the  income  tax  and  the  stamp  tax  on  tele- 
grams and  telephone  messages  and  build  an  auto  high- 
way from  ocean  to  ocean  every  year.  Nation-wide  Pro- 
hibition will  solve  the  problem  of  how  to  find  money 
enough  for  every  wise  necessity  of  progressing  and  ex- 
panding civilization. 

THE  SALOON  FROG 

In  Brazil  they  have  a queer  tree  frog  that  builds  its 
nest  or  fort  in  ponds  in  such  a way  that  the  eggs  are 
protected  by  a circular  wall  rising  from  the  bottom  of 


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the  pond  to  a few  inches  above  the  surface  of  the  water. 
But  this  isn’t  the  only  odd  characteristic  this  frog 
possesses;  if  you  hunt  for  Mr.  Frog  and  try  to  locate 
him  by  his  croaking,  you  will  wander  many  a weary 
hour  before  you  find  him,  for  he  has  the  power  of  the 
ventriloquist.  He  can  throw  his  voice  and  make  it  ap- 
pear that  he  is  away  off,  when  in  reality  he  may  be  within 
a few  feet  of  you. 

That  is  the  game  the  saloon  man  is  trying  to  play 
these  days.  He  hides  behind  grapevines  in  one  place 
and  hop-fields  in  another,  and  hotel-keepers  in  still 
another.  He  does  not  dare  to  stand  out  frankly  as  a 
saloon-keeper  anywhere.  The  name  is  so  unpopular  that 
every  trick  and  subterfuge  that  can  be  conceived  is  being 
used  to  turn  attention  away  from  it. 

GREAT  PHYSICIANS  AND  DRINK 

The  changed  attitude  of  the  medical  world  in  regard 
to  alcoholic  drinks  in  the  last  two  decades  ought  to 
convince  every  one  that  the  saloon  is  on  its  last  legs. 
Listen  to  the  testimony  of  these  four  great  witnesses. 
First  let  us  call  Dr.  Stadelman,  a great  German  author- 
ity of  Berlin.  This  is  what  he  says : 

“The  consequences  of  alcoholism  are  much  more  far- 
reaching  and  incomparably  more  destructive  than  those 
from  tuberculosis.” 

Let  us  call  another  great  foreign  scientist.  Professor 
Wilhelm  Weygandt,  of  Wurzburg: 

“If  really,  for  once,  the  entire  civilized  race  of  man- 
kind should  abstain  from  alcohol  for  thirty  years,  so 
that  a completely  sound  generation  could  come  into  ex- 
istence, there  would  result  a transformation,  a raising 


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of  the  whole  culture-level,  a heightening  of  the  happiness 
and  welfare  of  men,  which  could  easily  be  placed  beside 
the  greatest  historical  reformations  and  revolutions  of 
which  we  know  anything.” 

Now  let  us  listen  to  a great  French  physician,  Dr. 
Dupre : 

‘ ‘ Alcoholism,  agent  in  all  physical  and  moral  degener- 
acies, is  moving  on  to  the  destruction  of  our  land.  I can 
not  too  much  insist  on  the  literal  truth  of  the  sorrowful 
prediction  and  I affirm  that  one  can  inscribe  this  formula 
over  all  the  drink  shops  of  France:  Finis  Gallice/  ” 

Now  let  us  call  up  our  great  Ohio  authority,  Dr. 
Kramer  of  Cincinnati,  and  this  is  his  decision : 

“In  the  past  the  medical  profession  labored  under 
the  impression  that  alcohol  was  a valuable  medicine, 
and  was  responsible  for  its  use  to  a considerable  degree. 
The  medical  profession  has  foimd  out  that  the  old  view 
as  to  alcohol  being  a valuable  medicine  is  wrong,  and 
that  it  is  merely  a narcotic,  a sleep-producing  drug.  But 
the  profession  has  not  yet  informed  the  public  that  the 
old  notion  was  wrong — and  we  propose  now  to  teU  the 
facts  to  the  public.” 

One  by  one  all  the  props  are  dropping  out  from  imder 
this  vile  business  and  it  will  soon  totter  to  its  doom. 

vy 

THE  DISCIPLINE  THAT  KILLS 

A few  years  ago  Prof.  Hugo  Munsterberg,  of  Harvard 
University,  wrote  a startling  article  which  was  published 
in  McClure’s  Magazine,  entitled  “Prohibition  and 
Social  Psychology,”  which  strongly  advocated  moderate 
liquor  drinking,  claiming  that  moderate  drinkers  were 
much  superior  in  vigor  and  attainment  to  total  ab- 


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Stainers.  To  put  it  in  his  own  language,  he  advocated 
“a  sufficient  use  of  intoxicants  to  secure  emotional  in- 
spiration and  volitional  intensity.”  He  claimed  that 
by  this  “moderate  drinking”  a most  desirable  moral  J/' 
training  is  secured.  “So  man,”  said  Munsterberg,  “is 
schooling  himself  for  the  active  and  effective  life  by  the 
temperate  use  of  exciting  beverages.” 

But  all  the  recent  investigations  carried  on  in  the 
laboratories  of  scientists  throughout  the  world  are  giv- 
ing the  lie  to  these  declarations,  which  have  been  so 
often  quoted.  Modern  science,  to  use  the  language  of 
Dr.  Joseph  Crooker,  proves  to  us  that  even  in  small 
quantities  alcoholic  drinks  paralyze  the  higher  func- 
tions and  faculties ; push  reason  and  conscience  off 
the  throne  and  give  a free  reign  to  animal  impulses; 
weaken  the  power  of  the  will,  and  lessen  the  activity 
of  the  imagination ; derange  all  the  senses  so  that  sight 
and  hearing  are  less  acute;  benumb  the  fingers  so  that 
they  act  more  slowly;  and,  at  every  point,  not  only 
destroy  life,  but  deceive  the  user,  making  him  think 
that  he  is  stronger  and  quicker,  when,  in  fact,  he  is 
weaker  and  slower!  What  drink  actually  does  is  the 
exact  opposite  of  giving  “emotional  inspiration  and 
volitional  intensity.” 


“A  BUM  DOPE” 

In  a recent  novel  by  Raymond  Ashley,  a new  writer 
of  promise,  he  has  a character  of  interest  in  a bartender 
whom  he  makes  say  of  liquor:  “It  is  bum  dope!  It 
eats  the  soles  out  of  your  shoes,  the  seat  out  of  your 
pants,  the  taste  out  of  your  mouth,  the  ambition  out 
of  your  soul  and  the  kick  out  of  your  heart!  It  makes 


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women  red-eyed,  men  thirsty,  and  little  babies  hungry.  ’ ’ 
Think  of  licensing  the  sale  of  stuff  that  does  all  that, 
and  more. 


SMASH  THE  SALOON 

When  Judge  Anderson,  of  Indianapolis,  came  to 
sentence  that  great  herd  of  political  conspirators  and 
grafters  at  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  he  had  some  very  per- 
tinent things  to  say  about  the  saloon.  When  sen- 
tencing some  saloon-keepers  he  said:  “My  notion  is 
that  the  saloon  will  have  to  go.”  And  he  continued, 
“I  believe  the  time  will  come  when  the  people  will  rise 
up  and  smash  the  saloon.  The  evidence  in  this  case 
showed  that  the  saloons  were  the  centers  of  nearly  all 
corruption  in  the  election  of  Terre  Haute.” 

It  is  so  everywhere.  The  saloon  is  the  hotbed  where 
corruption  of  every  sort  germinates  and  thrives  as  no- 
where else  in  the  world.  Judge  Anderson  hit  the  nail 
on  the  head.  The  people  are  already  rising  up  to 
“smash  the  saloon.” 

AGE  OF  WONDERFUL  EVENTS 

The  recent  granting  of  equal  suffrage  to  women  in 
Denmark  by  the  unanimous  vote  of  the  Danish  Diet  de- 
serves to  be  set  down  as  one  of  the  wonderful  events  of 
the  present  age.  Who  in  this  country  would  have  be- 
lieved ten  years  ago  that  an  old  world  nation  like  Den- 
mark would  unanimously  take  such  a step  in  advance 
sooner  than  an  American  State  like  Ohio?  This  is  the 
age  of  wonders.  Denmark,  it  may  be  taken  for  granted, 
will  soon  be  entirely  free  from  liquor  traffic.  When 
woman  suffrage  comes  in,  the  saloon  counts  it  the  hand- 


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writing  on  the  wall  and  notice  that  it  will  soon  have  to 
get  out.  The  liquor  men  know  this  and  dread  woman 
suffrage  as  a certain  precursor  of  Prohibition. 


A HARD  HIT 

The  wet  brigade  are  surely  getting  some  stem-winder 
knockouts  on  the  side  as  we  pass  along  to  the  final  over- 
throw of  the  saloon.  The  going  dry  of  Duluth  was  a 
terrific  blow.  Even  Bonfort’s  Wine  and  Spirit  Circular 
says:  “Duluth  is  a very  important  center  in  the  trade  in 
the  State  of  Minnesota  and  supplies  a large  territory.” 
Well,  there  will  be  “nothing  doing”  hereafter  at  that 
“center.”  The  Superior  Telegram,  commenting  on  the 
splendid  victory,  says:  “Probably  neither  of  the  twin 
ports  (Duluth  and  Superior)  will  ever  reverse  their  ac- 
tion in  deciding  to  adopt  the  dry  policy.  The  fact  that 
both  cities  have  adopted  that  policy  will  have  the  effect 
of  strengthening  the  sentiment  that  both  cities  should 
remain  dry.” 


“THE  INGLORIOUS  DEAD” 

From  Iowa’s  state  prison  in  Fort  Madison  comes  this 
heart-broken  and  heart-breaking  description  of  a drunk- 
ard’s death  inside  prison  walls:  “Shunned  by  the  living 
and  separated  from  the  resting-place  of  the  honored 
dead,  this  spot  is  certainly  the  saddest,  loneliest  spot  in 
all  the  region.  Yes,  here,  if  nowhere  else,  the  dead  are 
equal.  No  proud  monuments  or  saintly  epitaphs  are 
seen,  but  plain  white  stones  with  lettering  suggestive  of 
the  markings  of  sin  on  once  clean  lives.  A name,  which 
perhaps  the  sleeper’s  father  never  heard,  a number  tell- 
ing all  the  dishonor,  and  below,  the  duration  and  end 


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of  an  earthly  pilgrimage — nothing  more.  Here  no  can- 
nons boom,  no  flags  wave,  no  throng  of  fellow  citizens 
come  to  pay  their  annual  tribute;  but  forest  trees  un- 
furl the  flag  of  all  nations,  a solitary  bird  trilling  in  the 
distance  and  a cricket  chirping  in  the  grass  relieve  the 
awful  quiet;  the  sun,  ever  rising  on  the  evil  and  the 
good,  pours  a flood  of  glory  over  the  dreary  spot.  No 
tolling  bell,  no  eulogy  or  chant  or  plumed  hearse  is  need- 
ed at  these  funerals.  No  mother’s  tears  are  dropt  in- 
to these  graves.  In  faraway  flelds  and  gardens  where 
some  who  lie  here  spent  a happy  childhood,  the  flowers 
they  loved  have  bloomed  and  withered  many  years,  but 
not  a petal  has  been  wafted  to  this  lonely  abode.  One 
here  is  faithful  to  the  last.  Dear  old  Mother  Nature  re- 
ceives her  sinful  children  and  hides  them  in  her  bosom 
until,  at  the  command  of  her  God  and  theirs,  she  must 
deliver  them  up. 

“In  the  stillness  of  the  night  the  yearning  heart  of 
many  a mother  goes  abroad  in  search  of  her  boy,  who 
has  forgotten  to  write  home.  Through  the  city  and 
forest,  over  prairie  and  ocean  it  roams,  but  never  does 
that  heart  pause  at  the  prison  burying  ground.  Here 
lies  a mere  child  laid  low  in  dishonor,  and  here  one  in 
the  very  pride  of  strength  and  maturity.  Here — can  it 
be  possible — lies  one  but  twenty-one,  twenty,  nineteen, 
eighteen  years  of  age.  Boys,  mere  boys.  Where  were 
their  fathers,  mothers,  teachers,  preachers  and  the 
humane  societies  when  the  whirlpool  caught  their  care- 
less young  feet  ? Stand  aghast ! Is  not  this  a phantom 
record  ? Here  is  a youth  just  beginning  to  tamper  with 
sin.  How  will  he  flght?  Will  it  be  a lost  battle,  this 
conflict  with  powers  of  darkness?  Single-handed  and 
alone  the  boy  is  fighting,  sometimes  bravely.  There  are 


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passions  and  environments  which  will  hold  him  with  a 
stronger  grip  than  any  handcuffs  that  may  come  later. 

“Those  people  whose  flag  waves  so  proudly  over  their 
own  dead  are  in  league  against  him.  Do  they  not  de- 
liver him  soul  and  body  to  the  rum  fiend  which  has 
power  to  kill  and  cast  him  into  a drunkard’s  grave  or 
perhaps  is  the  cause  of  putting  him  behind  the  bars? 
Here  he  may  gain.  a.  silent  victory  and  be  placed  in  a 
windowless  palace  to  rest.  God  only  knows.  ’ ’ 

Who  can  conceive  how  much  it  means  for  human  hap- 
piness when  Prohibition  in  a State  reduces  the  prison 
population  more  than  three-fourths,  as  is  the  well-known 
ordinary  in  such  states. 


LIQUOR  AND  LIBERTY 

The  Ashtabula  Beacon  has  this  striking  editorial  dis- 
cussion of  the  time-worn  cry  for  “personal  liberty”  by 
the  liquor  sellers : “In  a near  by  State,  just  now,  there 
are  three  men  serving  terms  for  murder,  who  are  asking 
for  a parole  or  pardon,  and  in  each  instance  their  friends 
are  setting  up  as  an  excuse  for  their  crime  the  fact  that 
they  were  under  the  infiuence  of  liquor  when  the  deed 
was  committed.  We  have  no  reason  to  doubt  or  dispute 
this.  It  is  happening  everywhere  at  too  frequent  in- 
tervals. But  how  is  the  pardoning  officer  to  know  that 
this  same  party  will  not  again  allow  himself  to  get  into 
the  clutches  of  intemperance  and  again  commit  some 
foul  deed  and  be  a menace  to  society?  It  is  apparent 
that  there  is  but  one  way  to  safeguard  society  against 
the  terrors  of  alcoholism  and  that  is  to  abolish  it  forever 
from  our  State  and  nation.  Some  designate  the  proposi- 
tion of  taking  liquor  away  from  the  public  as  an  inva- 


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sion  of  their  rights  or  a taking  away  of  their  personal 
liberty,  but  in  the  case  of  these  four  men,  according  to 
their  loved  ones  and  friends,  their  entire  liberty,  their 
lives,  were  sacrificed  to  the  demon  rum.” 

OUR  NEW  ARMY  CORPS  IN  THE  PROHIBITION 
CAMPAIGN 

Lewis  Edwin  Theiss,  in  an  article  published  in  the 
Outlook,  calls  attention  to  an  article  published  last 
August  in  the  same  magazine  in  which  it  was  stated  that 
the  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  the  Cambria  Steel  Company, 
the  Lukens  Iron  Works,  the  American.  Car  and  Foundry 
Company,  the  American  Sheet  and  Tin  Plate  Company, 
all  great  employers  of  labor,  had  put  alcohol  under  ban, 
and  now  the  writer  adds  that  in  the  eleven  months  since 
that  article  was  published  great  advanne  has  been  made. 

Among  other  things  noted  is  the  fact  that  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad  has  decided  to  stop  the  sale  of  liquor  in 
all  property  owned  by  it,  including  the  great  stations  of 
New  York  and  Philadelphia.  The  American  Car  and 
Foundry  Company  went  a step  farther  and  discharged 
employees  who  signed  liquor  dealers’  applications  for 
saloon-licenses.  The  hlidvale  Steel  Company,  the  G.  W. 
Blabon  Company,  the  Link  Belt  Company,  the  Florence 
Iron  Company,  tlie  Corn  Planter’s  Refining  Company, 
the  Lee  Tire  Company  and  many  others,  all  large  em- 
ployers of  labor,  have  stept  over  into  the  anti-liquor 
ranks.  Also  the  Delaware  & Lackawanna  has  joined  the 
list  of  railroads  that  discharge  any  employees  who  even 
enter  or  lounge  about  a liquor  saloon.  Every  one  of 
these  companies  mentioned  marshals  an  army  of  em- 
ployees. Thus  day  by  day  the  new  army  of  national 
Prohibition  is  being  mobilized. 


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PROTECT  THE  HOME 

“Is  it  wealth  that  makes  a home? 

Is  it  pillar,  tower,  or  dome  ? 

Costly  tapestries  of  silk  and  frescoed  walls  ? 

And  attendants  who  obey  your  slightest  calls? 

If  these  make  the  home,  you  say, 

I will  quickly  tell  you  nay! 

You  may  rear  a costly  pile. 

You  may  furnish  it  in  style, 

But  if  yet  there  is  a dearth 
Of  love’s  glow  upon  your  hearth, 

‘Tis  a house  and  not  a home  that  you  have  made.” 

Nothing  kills  the  home  love  so  frequently  as  the  saloon. 

WOES  OF  THE  BEER  GARDEN 

How  often  have  we  been  regaled,  by  American  tourists 
who  have  traveled  in  German  countries,  with  tales  of 
domestic  delights  found  in  the  family  beer  gardens  in 
Berlin  and  Munich  and  other  such  cities.  But  these  tran- 
sients see  only  the  gay  surface  and  not  the  woes  which 
follow.  Professor  Bollinger,  one  of  the  highest  authori- 
ties, who  made  5,700  autopsies,  declares  that  “Every 
sixteenth  male  in  Munich  dies  of  Munich  beer  heart.” 
And  he  continues:  “One  rarely  finds  in  Munich  a fault- 
less heart  and  a normal  kidney  in  an  adult  man.  The 
stream  of  beer  and  beer  diseases  flows  no  less  rapidly 
than  the  Iser  under  Munich  bridges.  ’ ’ 

The  best  authorities  estimate  that  beer  causes  54  per 
cent,  of  German  divorces.  On  two-thirds  of  the  children 
from  drunken  families  in  Berlin  institutions,  head  scars 
have  been,  found  telling  of  cruel  beatings  by  drunken 


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parents  under  the  influence  of  beer.  Professor  Eulen- 
berg  is  responsible  for  the  statement  that  during  the 
years  of  his  observation — about  twenty-four — 1,152 
school  children  in  Berlin  committed  suicide  from  fear  of 
cruelty  at  the  hands  of  beer-debauched  parents. 

Oh,  no ! The  beer  garden  is  not  all  sunshine  and  roses ; 
there  are  woes  there  also. 


IMPROVING  THE  TOP  CRUST 

If  you  compare  our  American  civilization  to  a pie,  it 
may  be  truthfully  said  that  the  middle  of  the  pie  is  in  a 
very  wholesome  condition,  but  a good  part  of  the  top 
crust  has  been  soaked  in  cocktails  and  champagne  while 
the  bottom  crust  is  soggy  with  beer. 

A Philadelphia  society  woman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M.  Gaz- 
zam  has  recently  made  quite  a stir  by  seeking  to  arouse 
the  slumbering  consciences  of  other  society  women  to  the 
danger  from  social  drinking.  The  reporter  of  the 
Philadelphia  North  American  reports  Mrs.  Gazzam  as 
saying,  in  explanation  of  her  interest: 

“My  chief  concern  to-day  is  for  the  young  men  and 
women,  the  boys  and  girls,  who  will  be  the  future  de- 
fenders of  our  country.  We  must  give  them  high  ideals, 
strong  heads,  straight-seeing  eyes.  We  can  not  let  them 
fritter  away  strength,  physical  and  moral,  drinking 
cocktails  and  smoking  cigarets. 

‘ ‘ I would  not  dare  to  give  a drink  to  any  of  the  boys 
or  girls  who  come  to  my  home.  I would  be  afraid  of 
what  I might  be  awakening,  of  what  I might  be  paving 
the  way  for.  We  have  no  right  to  put  our  girls  in  the 
position  of  having  to  refuse  drinks  when  they  go  out  to 
take  their  places  in  society.  They  come  to  us  from  their 


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finishing  schools  and  colleges  fresh  and  eager  and  ex- 
cited with  life,  and  in  the  flush  of  it  all  they  are  likely 
to  do  what  others  do,  unless  they  have  been  warned  and 
unless  they  have  unusually  strong  characters  and  high 
ideals. 

“We  are  criminal  to  put  the  choice  of  being  temperate 
or  intemperate  up  to  such  young  people,  and  we  have  no 
right  to  expect  them  to  withstand  temptation  when  they 
see  older  persons  on  all  sides  of  them  succumbing. 

‘ ‘ How  are  the  boys  to  be  prepared  to  defend  the  coun- 
try if  they  are  forming  drinking  habits  ? How  can  they 
make  good  doctors,  good  executives,  good  business  men 
if  we  let  them  impair  their  faculties  when  they  are 
young?  And  how  can  we  expect  the  girls  to  make  good 
nurses,  good  hospital  administrators,  and  able  to  do  the 
home  work,  if  there  is  a war,  if  we  encourage  them  to 
drink  and  smoke  now?  Sobriety  is  the  fundamental  of 
preparedness,  and  the  only  safe  and  sane  way  to  so- 
briety is  total  abstinence.  You  would  be  surprized  to 
know  how  many  men  and  women  have  been  accustomed  to 
drinking  think  this  way  and  have  stopt.  As  I have 
said  before,  they  are  simply  waiting  for  some  one  to 
show  them  the  way  to  temperance. 

“Since  the  meeting  at  my  house,  I have  received  in- 
numerable letters  commending  the  move  and  expressing 
the  wish  that  it  will  not  be  abandoned.  One  letter  has 
especially  interested  me.  It  came  from  the  head  of  a 
big  reformatory  for  girls,  and  the  message  it  bore  showed 
me  like  a flash  the  society  woman ’s  responsibility  for  the 
morals  of  the  working  girls.  The  head  of  this  institu- 
tion wrote  that  she  was  glad  to  hear  of  the  meeting,  as 
it  will  help  her  in  her  work.  The  girls  who  are  brought 


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to  her  for  various  offenses  always  answer  when  she  tells 
them  they  should  not  drink: 

‘Why  shouldn’t  I drink?  Don’t  the  society  women 
do  it?’ 

“My  interest  in  this  temperance  movement  dates  some 
six  years  back.  I have  a young  daughter  in  society,  and 
two  boys  in  college,  and  I do  not  want  to  have  them 
brought  in  contact  with  any  more  temptations  than  are 
necessary  and  I want  to  rouse  other  women  to  feel  the 
same.” 

Let  the  good  work  go  on,  improving  both  crusts  of  the 
pie. 

SALOONS  AND  THE  PENITENTIARY 

North  Dakota  and  Montana  are  close  neighbors. 
Twenty-five  years  ago  North  Dakota  voted  out  her  sa- 
loons and  has  been  steadily  intrenching  her  prohibitory 
law  ever  since.  What  has  been  the  result  in  the  social 
and  moral  well-being  of  her  citiaens?  Take  this  as  a 
sample : North  Dakota  has  575,000  population  and  only 
175  people  in  the  penitentiary  now.  Montana  has  only 

375.000  population  and  at  the  same  standard  as  set  by 
North  Dakota  should  have  only  114  in  the  penitentiary, 
but  Montana  has  licensed  saloons  and  instead  of  114 
convicts  she  has  900  in  the  penitentiary  No  wonder  the 

1.000  inmates  of  the  Eastern  Penitentiary  of  Pennsyl- 
vania petitioned  the  last  Legislature  to  give  favorable 
consideration  to  any  measure  that  had  for  its  object  the 
curtailment  of  the  sale  of  liquor.  Here  is  a brief  para- 
graph from  their  pitiful  petition:  “Many  of  your  peti- 
tioners have  a personal  knowledge  of  its  [alcohol’s]  de- 
basing influence  as  exemplified  in  their  own  lives,  and 
believing  that  if  the  sale  of  intoxicating  liquor  were 


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prohibited  the  effect  would  be  to  reduce  crime  at  least 
50  per  cent.,  if  not  more,  they  therefore  respectfully 
pray  that  you  will  give  favorable  consideration  . . . 
etc.” 

What  Christian  man  can  withhold  his  hand  and  means 
from  helping  national  Prohibition  to  victory  in  the  face 
of  such  facts. 


BILLY  SUNDAY  AS  AN  ASSET 

Frederick  M.  Davenport  has  been  writing  a series  of 
thoughtful  and  suggestive  artieles  in  the  OutlooJc 
“On  the  Trail  of  Progress  and  Reaction  in  the  West.” 
I take  it  to  be  quite  suggestive  that  he  devotes  one  of 
them  entirely  to  a study  of  “The  National  Value  of 
Sunday.  ’ ’ I quote  two  striking  paragraphs  dealing  with 
Sunday ’s  influence  on  Prohibition  sentiment : 

“In  the  West  I came  several  times  upon  the  trail  of 
Billy  Sunday.  Sunday  is  from  Iowa,  as  is  Mrs  Carrie 
Chapman  Catt,  the  brilliant  woman  suffrage  leader,  so 
that  Iowa,  being  also  now  a powerful  center  of  Prohibi- 
tion, is  quite  heavily  responsible  for  at  least  three  new 
national  issues.  Just  at  noon  one  day  when  I was  in  the 
Capitol  building  .at  Des  Moines  there  came  rolling  up  the 
stairway  a volume  of  religious  song  from  what  was  evi- 
dently a large  chorus  of  vigorous,  voices  on  the  first  floor. 
My  only  prolonged  incarceration  in  a State  Capitol  had 
been  at  Albany.  And  what  I heard  was  a new  ex- 
perience to  me  in  such  surroundings.  I found,  upon 
inquiry  and  investigation,  that  there  was  a large  noon 
meeting  of  officials  and  department  employees  going  on 
several  weeks  after  Billy  Sunday  had  been  in  town.  I 
learned  that  high  officials  of  the  State  government  were 


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the  heads  of  trail-hitting  bands  who  at  week  ends  were 
going  all  over  the  State  of  Iowa  to  carry  to  the  uttermost 
limits  the  message  of  practical  religion  which  Sunday 
had  brought  to  Des  Moines.  I talked  with  the  Mayor 
and  with  all  sorts  of  people  who  would  know,  and  there 
is  no  question  that  Sunday  had  profoundly  stirred  the 
whole  community.  Cautious  observers  informed  me 
that,  among  other  important  influences,  his  meetings  had 
quickly  ripened  the  Prohibition  issue,  and  that  Des 
Moines  would  soon  be  dry.  Away  back  in  1883  Iowa 
adopted  a Prohibition  amendment  to  her  constitution, 
but  it  was  annulled  by  the  courts.  Then  the  legislature 
attempted  to  establish  Prohibition  by  statute,  but  public 
opinion  was  not  ready  for  it,  and  the  law  was  poorly 
enforced.  The  so-called  mulct  measure  was  passed,  de- 
stroying the  effect  of  the  statute  by  permitting  any 
county  to  violate  it  which  could  secure  the  names  of  65 
per  cent,  of  the  voters  on  a petition.  The  ease  and  e\dls 
of  the  petition  are  notorious,  and  the  original  provision 
of  the  constitution  has  had  to  wait  the  development  of  a 
slowly  educated  public  sentiment.  Sunday  seems  to  have 
arrived  about  the  time  the  hour  was  due  to  strike.  Any- 
way, soon  after  he  left,  the  courts  scrutinized  the  new 
petitions  for  DesMoines  with  rigid  severity,  and  the 
members  of  the  Legislature  seemed  to  be  in  touch  with 
a public  opinion  at  home  which  was  established  and  in- 
vincible. Only  a few  weeks  after  I was  in  Iowa  the 
prophecies  of  my  friends  in  Des  Moines  were  fulfilled, 
Des  Moines  and  the  Legislature  going  dry  together,  the 
latter  repealing  the  mulct  law  by  an  overwhelming 
majority. 

‘ ‘ In  Colorado  also  I found  evidence  of  a more  intimate 
influence  of  Sunday  and  his  message  upon  certain  power- 


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ful  business  personages  than  he  himself  knows  or  than 
I am  at  liberty  to  relate.  Sunday  was  in  that  State  while 
the  fight  was  pending  last  summer  over  the  Governorship 
and  Prohibition.  The  effect  of  his  meetings  upon  both 
of  these  issues  was  perhaps  determining.  The  Sunday 
meetings  were  held  in  Colorado’  Springs  and  Denver.  In 
these  two  communities  a comparison  of  the  vote  last  fall 
upon  Prohibition  with  the  previous  vote  in  these  cities 
upon  the  same  issue  indicates  that  the  fight  was  really 
won  there.” 

May  God  bless  Billy  Sunday  and  give  him  even 
greater  power  to  smite  the  saloon,  say  we  with  a grateful 
heart. 


NO  ONE  WANTS  A DRUNKEN  ENGINEER 

As  a pleasing  aftermath  to  the  unanimous  vote  of 
eight  hundred  and  nineteen  delegates,  representing 
seventy-four  thousand  locomotive  engineers,  in  their  bi- 
ennial convention,  held  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  during  the 
last  week  in  May,  this  bit  of  conversation,  which  I over- 
heard a few  days  later  on  the  train,  is  quite  interesting. 

Two  men  sitting  immediately  in  front  of  me  were  dis- 
cussing the  wet  and  dry  proposition  with  considerable 
heat.  The  wet  man  had  been  very  arrogant  in  his  atti- 
tude, and  had  denounced  total  abstainers  and  Prohibi- 
tionists as  a band  of  hair-brained  fanatics  and  cranks. 
When  the  man  who  had  been  carrying  the  temperance 
side  of  the  argument  called  attention  to  this  unanimous 
vote  of  the  engineers’  convention,  the  wet  man  answered, 
quick  as  a flash:  “Well,  that  is  all  right.  Of  course,  no 
one  wants  a drunken  engineer!” 

Who  wants  a drunken  anything?  Surely  no  wife 
wants  a drunken  husband.  No  son  or  daughter  wants 


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a drunken  father  or  mother.  No  sick  man  wants  a 
drunken  doctor,  and  no  man  in  important  litigation  will 
trust  a drunken  lawyer.  No  decent  judge  will  allow  a 
drunken  juror  to  sit  in  his  court.  The  drinking  salesman 
has  passed  out  of  business  life  and  is  seen  no  more  in 
the  marts  of  trade. 

During  the  campaign  of  last  year  I saw  bands  of 
working  men  marching  through  the  streets  with  the  ban- 
ner: “If  we  drink,  who  will  hire  us?”  Who,  indeed! 
They  are  not  wanted  on  the  railroads.  The  steel  mills 
or  the  potteries  do  not  want  them.  Not  even  the  saloon- 
keeper wants  a man  who  drinks.  He  hires  only  teeto- 
talers when  he  can  find  one  willing  to  do  his  dirty  work. 

The  work  of  the  saloon  is  to  make  every  person  who 
becomes  a steady  customer  undesirable  anywhere  in  the 
world. 


THE  LYING  REPORTS  LIQUOR  GIVES  TO  THE 
BRAIN 

Dr.  Joseph  H,  Crooker,  in  his  vital  book,  “Shall  I 
Drink  ? ’ ’ calls  attention  to  the  fact  that  one  of  the  worst 
things  about  the  use  of  liquor  is  that  the  sense  of  relief 
from  fatigue  and  the  feeling  of  increased  vigor  of  mind 
on  taking  a drink  are  false  reports.  The  scientists  have 
discovered  that  liquor  deranges  the  whole  intelligence 
system  of  the  human  body.  This  is  illustrated  by  the 
statement  that  if  the  insulating  covering  of  the  power 
cable  be  stript  otf  down  the  line,  so  as  to  cause  a leak 
of  electric  energy,  the  indicator  in  the  power  house 
would  show  that  much  power  was  being  used,  and  the 
inference  would  be  natural  that  ears  were  running 
rapidly,  whereas  they  were  actually  stalled.  It  is  in  like 


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manner  the  man  who  drinks  is  deceived.  There  is  a 
story  of  an  old  sailor  who  told  the  young  man  to  stop 
drinking  just  before  the  two  balls  hanging  across  the 
room  looked  like  three.  Whereupon  the  young  man  re- 
plied that  he  himself  had  better  quit  at  onee,  for  he  was 
now  seeing  two  where  there  was  really  only  one. 

Strong  drink,  like  its  father,  the  devil,  is  a liar  from 
start  to  finish. 

PROHIBITION  AND  SELF-RESPECT 

Wheeling,  W.  Va.,  wet,  had  737  prisoners  in  her  work- 
house  in  six  months.  The  same  city,  dry,  has  203  in  the 
same  time  and  that  during  the  first  year  of  Prohibition. 

What  a wonderful  theme  for  reflection  is  there ! Five 
hundred  homes  saved  from  the  disgrace  of  having  some 
member  of  the  family  a prisoner  in  the  workhouse.  Five 
hundred  men  and  women  who  with  open  saloons  would 
have  been  arrested  by  the  police,  waited  in  a jail  cell, 
stood  shamed  and  disgraced  in  the  city  police  court  and 
sent  for  weeks  and  months  into  the  criminal  workhouse. 
Now  these  500  people  go  their  self-respecting  way,  un- 
ashamed and  undisgraced,  living  the  life  of  the  decent 
American  citizen.  And  this  is  only  one  small  city. 

Think  what  it  would  mean  with  the  whole  nation  dry ! 
It  is  coming,  thank  God ! 


OUSTING  BEER  FROM  FACTORIES 

We  must  not  for  a moment  imagine  that  the  factories 
scattered  over  the  United  States,  which,  during  the  last 
year  or  two,  have  shut  out  the  “growler”  and  eneourag- 
ed  their  working  men  to  drink  milk  instead  of  beer,  are 
fanatical  pioneers.  This  is  far  from  the  truth.  As 


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early  as  1910  the  management  of  the  great  Krupp  gun 
plant  at  Essen,  Germany,  about  which  we  have  been 
hearing  so  much  since  the  war  began,  and  the  efficiency 
of  whose  working  men  has  astonished  the  world,  abso- 
lutely prohibited  the  sale  of  beer  and  opened  milk  booths 
instead. 

In  the  great  machine  shops  of  Ludwig  Loewe  in  Berlin, 
four  years  ago,  tea  was  served  free  to  working  men,  and 
the  same  year  the  Arnsberg  Iron  "Works,  employing 
4,000  men,  shut  out  beer  and  put  in  coffee  and  milk  in- 
stead. Beer  is  forbidden  entirely  to  working  men  and 
trainmen,  as  well  as  all  officials  employed  on  the  railways 
throughout  Germany.  There  is  going  to  be  a new  Pro- 
hibition Germany  some  of  these  days.  What  will  Cin- 
cinnati do  then? 


IF  THEY  COULD  ONLY  ABOLISH  GRAND  JURIES 

A friend  of  mine  on  a railway  train  the  other  day 
overheard  a conversation  between  two  liquor  men  sitting 
in  the  seat  behind  him.-  One  of  the  men  who  had  just 
been  reading  in  his  morning  paper  a rebuke  of  the  traffic 
by  some  grand  jury,  said: 

“Jim,  there  ought  to  be  some  way  to  either  make 
these  grand  juries  tend  to  their  own  business  and  keep 
their  dirty  fingers  out  of  our  business,  or  else  do  away 
with  the  grand  jury  altogether.  It  is  a public 
nuisance.  ’ ’ 

The  grand  jury  is  a constant  source  of  irritation  and 
torment  to  the  saloon-keeper.  A recent  grand  jury  in 
Philadelphia  made  this  report:  “The  curse  of  the  use 
of  liquor  has  been  shown  to  be  the  primary  cause  of 
many  of  the  minor  crimes,  and  also  of  the  more  serious 


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ones — even  murder — the  large  number  of  which  would 
never  have  been  committed  otherwise.” 

Now,  how  is  a good,  live  wire  saloon-keeper  who  wants 
to  work  his  business  for  all  it  is  worth  going  to  stand 
reports  like  that  1 

It  is  not  the  grand  jury,  but  the  saloon  we  are  going 
to  abolish  as  a public  nuisance. 

ROOSEVELT  AND  BRYAN 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  two  private  citizens  in 
the  United  States  who  hold  no  official  position  and  yet 
have  the  largest  personal  following  are  Theodore  Roose- 
velt and  William  Jennings  Bryan. 

This  is  what  they  think  of  the  drink  business.  Roose- 
velt says: 

“ It  is  strange  that  we  always  find  whisky  and  crooked 
polities  hand  in  hand.  ...  It  is  now  a question  of 
whether  the  liquor  interests  are  to  dominate  your  parties, 
dominate  your  public  life,  and  dominate  your  govern- 
ment.” 

And  this  is  what  Bryan  says: 

‘ ‘ The  liquor  interests  wage  their  contents  on  the  lowest 
level  and  are  most  powerful  because  of  their  ability  to 
debauch  those  whom  they  control.  No  man  is  in  a posi- 
tion to  discharge  his  duties  as  he  ought  to  who  takes 
orders  from  them,  and  they  can  generally  control  those 
to  whom  they  give  office.  The  saloon  is  a nuisance ; even 
its  defenders  can  not  say  more  in  its  behalf  than  that  it 
is  a necessary  nuisance.  It  ought  to  be  dealt  with  as  a 
nuisance  and  not  as  a thing  to  be  respected  or  feared.” 

Remember  these  are  the  opinions  of  the  two  most 
popular  leaders  that  America  has  produced  in  our  gener- 
ation. 


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THE  GERMAN  ANTI-BEER  FANATICS 

Some  years  ago  when  the  process  of  making  alcohol 
from  sawdust  was  discovered,  Mark  Twain  humorously 
exclaimed:  “Now  the  Germans  will  start  gnawing  their 
chair-legs.”  But  Mark  missed  it  that  time.  Some  of 
the  most  enthusiastic  Prohibition  cranks  in  the  world 
are  now  to  he  found  among  prominent  Germans  in  every 
walk  of  life. 

For  instance,  Dr.  Matthaei,  a staff  doctor  in  the  Ger- 
man army,  recently  said:  “Wills  of  men  made  in  an 
alcoholized  or  slightly  alcoholized  state  should  he  con- 
tested. Drunkards  are  made  hy  hospital  prescriptions 
of  alcohol.  The  law  should  hold  such  hospitals  legally 
liable.  It  must  he  considered  incompatible  with  the 
honor  of  a city  or  government  to  allow  the  activities  of 
poison  factories,  such  as  breweries  and  distilleries.” 

There  are  14,000  breweries  in  Germany,  hut  these  big 
German  doctors  are  determined  to  shut  them  all  up. 


KILL  THE  DOG 

The  story  is  told  of  a rabbit  being  chased  by  a dog. 
The  neighbors  were  solicitous  about  the  peril  to  the  in- 
nocent rabbit,  and  were  anxious  to  do  what  they  could 
to  help  the  sorely  beset  little  animal. 

They  met  and  passed  resolutions  of  sympathy  for  his 
condition,  and  called  to  the  rabbit  to  do  his  best  with 
running.  Then  they  went  farther,  and  begged  the  dog 
with  tears  in  their  eyes,  not  to  harm  the  rabbit. 

But,  meanwhile,  the  dog  was  warming  up  to  the  chase 
and  was  rapidly  gaining  on  the  now  fast  tiring  bunny. 
At  last  the  rabbit  overcame  the  timidity  and  limitations 
of  his  kind  and  shouted  in  anger  to  the  sympathizing 


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group  of  people : “ If  you  really  want  to  help  me,  shut 
up  about  running.  I am  doing  my  best  now.  Kill  the 
dog!” 

If  we  want  to  save  the  thousands  whose  daily  busi- 
ness in  the  liquor  traffic  is  deranging  them,  and  if  we 
want  to  save  the  hundreds  of  thousands  who  are  being 
debauched  by  the  saloon,  and  the  multitudes  of  wives 
and  children  who  are  being  robbed  of  everything  worth 
while  by  it,  then  kill  the  saloon.  National  Prohibition 
is  the  one  sure  and  complete  way  to  do  the  job. 


WHEN  THE  DEVIL  WAS  SICK 

The  liquor  men  of  Pennsylvania  are  pretty  badly 
scared  at  the  courageous  fight  put  up  by  the  Governor 
for  county  option  during  the  last  session  of  the  Legisla- 
ture, and  they  are  very  much  afraid  that  the  next  Legis- 
lature to  be  elected  will  greatly  curb  their  privileges. 
So  they  are  making  pretense  toward  reformation  coming 
from  within  their  ranks,  and  declare  they  are  going  to 
make  their  business  respectable. 

Think  of  the  contract  they  have  on  their  hands!  To 
make  respectable  a business  of  selling  that  which  causes 
a man  to  beat  his  wife,  and  murder  his  child,  and  burn 
his  own  house ! Think  of  making  respectable  a business 
that  is  the  chief  nerve  of  every  vice  and  crime  that  stains 
our  great  cities.  Dr.  Wilbur  F.  Crafts,  speaking  in  Phil- 
adelphia the  other  day,  advised  his  audience  not  to  take 
this  promise  of  the  liquor  sellers  to  abolish  the  cabaret, 
Satan’s  combination  of  booze  and  dancing,  too  seriously. 
“Don’t  take  the  saloon  men  too  seriously,  for  they  will 
forget  all  about  it  after  November,  1916,”  he  said. 
“Don’t  any  of  you  be  fooled  into  changing  your  vote  by 


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their  promise,  for  the  only  reformed  saloon  is  the  abolish- 
ed saloon.  However,  there  is  a significance  in  the  action 
of  the  rum  sellers.  The  very  fact  that  they  propose  to 
abolish  the  cabaret  is  a resounding  confession  that  the 
saloon  is  the  direct  promoter  of  ruin  among  girls  and 
boys.” 


IT  HAS  STUNK  ITSELF  OUT 

George  Mueller,  the  editor  of  the  Liquor  Dealers’ 
Journal,  a while  ago,  commenting  on  the  alignment  of 
Senator  Penrose  with  the  liquor  interests  in  order  to 
secure  his  reelection,  made  this  remarkable  confession: 

“While  I am  an  anti-Prohibitionist,  I am  more 
strongly  an  anti-Corruptionist,  and  I repeat  that  the 
liquor  traffic  deliberately  aids  the  most  corrupt  political 
powers  and  backs  with  aU  its  resources  the  most  un- 
worthy men,  the  most  corrupt  and  recreant  officials. 
WFy  1 Because  it  has  to  ask  immunity  for  its  own  law- 
lessness. 

“In  the  License  Court  to-day,  listening  to  evidence 
against  a prominent  saloon-keeper,  I heard  this  signifi- 
cant phrase  used  by  a witness:  ‘Every  street-walker  has 
a saloon  headquarters.’ 

“Who  does  not  know  that?  And  every  man  who 
furnishes  harboring  for  women  and  their  patrons  knows 
the  facts. 

“Yet  I,  in  a sense,  pity  the  saloon  man,  for  he  is  but 
the  agent,  the  distributor,  for  the  brewer,  whose  money 
backs  the  saloon  and  whose  beer  he  sells.” 

This  reminds  me  of  a friend  of  mine  who  recently 
crossed  the  Pacific  Ocean  on  a steamboat  with  a liquor 
drummer.  After  a long  conversation  on  the  present 
outlook  for  Prohibition  and  the  reasons  that  had  given 


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Prohibition  such  a tremendous  impetus  in  our  day,  the 
drummer  made  this  characteristic  but  significant  state- 
ment: “The  d— — liquor  business  has  just  stunk  itself 
out ! ’ ’ 

SMILE  OF  THE  SALOON  OVER  ALASKA 

No  decent  man  can  read  the  report  of  Dr.  E,  Lester 
Jones,  Federal  Commissioner  of  Fisheries  for  Alaska, 
without  a blush  of  shame,  and  without  having  every  drop 
of  red  blood  in  his  veins  roused  to  indignation.  Dr. 
Jones  says:  “The  white  man’s  lack  of  regard  for  the 
sanctity  of  the  native’s  home  is  the  crime  of  Alaska.  In 
many  sections  the  wife  and  daughter  are  dishonored, 
and  any  resistance  from  the  husband  or  father  or  brother 
is  overcome  by  threats  and  bribes  and  liquor,  until  the 
men  have  all  their  best  impulses  and  senses  deadened, 
and  seem  to  be  unmanned.  Wherever  the  white  man 
has  settled  the  saloon  prevails,  and  that  has  had  more 
to  do  with  the  ruination  of  the  Indian  and  the  Aleut 
than  all  other  causes.  In  sections  where  the  saloon  is 
not  found,  liquor  reaches  the  Indians  in  the  form  of  pay 
and  bribes.  This  is  a shame  and  a disgrace  to  the  United 
States  Government.  For  one  citizen,  I want  to  get  out 
from  under  my  share  of  that  horrible  stigma — National 
Prohibition  alone  can  do  it.” 

THE  ROCKY  ROAD  AHEAD  FOR  BEER  IN  GERMANY 

If  we  were  to  listen  to  the  German  brewers  in  this 
country  we  would  think  that  beer  was  regarded  by 
everybody  in  the  fatherland  as  a patron  saint  and  a 
great  benefactor,  but  such  is  far  from  being  the  case. 
German  judges  have  taken  alarm  and  have  sounded  the 


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note  of  warning  from  the  bench  against  the  danger  from 
prevalent  beer  drinking.  German  physicians  are  pro- 
testing against  it,  much  as  they  do  in  America.  German 
lawyers  have  organized  a strong  total  abstinence  society. 
German  editors  and  public  men  are  pointing  out  the 
grave  danger  to  children  and  to  public  health  generally 
from  beer  drinking.  German  educators  declare  that  beer 
is  harming  the  work  of  the  students.  The  German  gov- 
ernment some  time  ago  forbade  the  use  of  beer  by  rail- 
road employees.  The  German  Emperor  went  dry  years 
ago  and  has  preached  total  abstinence  from  one  end  of 
Germany  to  the  other.  He  warns  German  soldiers  and 
sailors  against  drink.  Beer  is  finding  enemies  at  home 
as  well  as  abroad — Prohibition,  world-wide,  is  on  the 
way. 


SOCIABILITY  AND  WIT  NOT  DEPENDENT  ON 
LIQUOR 

Dr.  Joseph  Crooker  in  his  new  book,  “Shall  I Drink?” 
quotes  Prof.  Hugo  Munsterherg  as  sajung:  “The  Ger- 
man, the  Frenchman,  the  Italian,  who  enjoys  his  glass 
of  light  wine  and  then  wanders  joyful  and  elated  to 
the  masterpieces  of  the  opera,  serves  himself  better  than 
the  New  Englander  who  drinks  ice  water  and  sits  satis- 
fied at  the  vaudeville  show,  world-far  from  real  art. 
Better  America  inspired  than  America  sober ! ’ ’ 

Dr.  Crooker  declares  this  to  be  the  most  reprehensible 
statement  ever  penned  by  a university  professor  in  our 
land.  He  declares  that  America  can  he  both  sober  and 
inspired,  and  goes  on  to  show  that  alcohol  does  not  in- 
spire, but  deadens  the  mind.  Its  infiuence  coarsens  art 
and  lowers  the  quality  of  pleasures. 


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There  is  abundant  testimony  that  temperance  people 
are  not  destitute  of  mirth  and  jollity.  An  eminent  Ger- 
man professor,  Dr.  Martin  Rade,  of  the  University  of 
Marburg,  made  a notable  address  some  five  years  ago  in 
Berlin  after  an  extensive  tour  of  this  country,  in  which 
he  spoke  in  the  highest  terms  of  the  social  and  intellec- 
tual brilliancy  of  the  many  banquets  in  America  which 
he  attended  where  no  liquors  were  served.  A distin- 
guished German-American,  Prof.  Walter  Rausch en- 
buseh,  of  the  University  of  Rochester,  speaking  about 
the  same  time  in  Germany,  bore  similar  testimony,  say- 
ing that  the  wit  and  gaiety  of  American  dinners,  without 
liquors,  surpassed  those  that  he  had  attended  in  the 
fatherland.  Dr.  Samuel  J.  Barrows,  a world-wide  trav- 
eler and  student  of  men  and  manners,  after  describing 
the  remarkable  changes  in  New  England  customs,  liquors 
being  banished  from  most  social  gatherings,  makes  this 
comment:  “Yet  life  is  more  cheerful,  education  more 
abundant,  music  and  art  more  popular,  and  the  physical 
scale  of  living  higher.” 


FROM  JUDGE  TO  TRAMP 

One  day  during  the  present  month  of  June  former 
Magistrate  E.  Gaston  Higginbotham  staggered  into  St. 
Mary’s  Hospital,  Brooklyn,  and  died  that  night.  He 
went  there  in  rags,  toes  showing  through  his  shoes,  and 
not  until  an  hour  before  his  death  in  the  charity  ward 
did  the  attendants  know  that  his  real  name  was  not  the 
“John  Smith”  he  had  registered.  Then  they  told  him 
his  ease  was  hopeless,  and  he  asked  for  his  wife,  from 
whom  his  drunkenness  had  separated  him  four  years 
ago.  She  arrived  and  they  were  reconciled  just  before 


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he  breathed  his  last.  The  newspaper  telling  the  story 
says: 

“The  death  of  the  former  magistrate  ends  a striking 
illustration  of  the  effects  that  drinking  has  upon  some 
strong  men.  A man  of  noble  impulses  and  great  culture, 
having  been  twice  honored  as  a great  magistrate,  yet  for 
two  years  he  had  lived  with  the  tramps  and  the  out- 
casts whom  he  had  once  judged  from  the  bench.” 

That  is  the  well-worn,  ordinary  story  of  what  the 
saloon  is  doing  in  every  city  in  the  land.  And  yet  there 
are  some  people  who  apologize  for  the  accurst  thing. 


SHUT  THE  DOOR  OF  TEMPTATION 

A gentleman  writing  in  the  Sunday  School  Times  re- 
lates a striking  and  suggestive  incident  which  he  ob- 
served about  the  time  of  the  close  of  the  Billy  Sunday 
revival  campaign  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey. 

Passing  two  men  standing  at  the  street  corner,  his 
attention  was  attracted  by  the  earnest  and  emphatic  re- 
ply of  one  of  them  to  the  other:  “No,  I’ll  not  go  with 
you.  Is  it  necessary  for  me  to  tell  you  again  ? ’ ’ 

The  speaker  was  a middle-aged  man,  somewhat  poorly 
but  neatly  dressed.  His  face  was  pale,  a paleness  that 
seemed  to  indicate  illness,  but  it  did  not.  It  merely  in- 
dicated that  the  man  had  given  up  something  that  had 
cost  a struggle.  He  was  refusing  to  go  with  a friend  to 
have  a drink  in  a neighboring  saloon. 

“I  am  done,”  he  replied  to  the  importunities.  “I 
stopt  the  other  night,  and  it  is  useless  for  you  to  in- 
vite me  back.  I shall  not  go ! ” 

And  he  did  not.  He  turned  away  and  left  the  spot 
while  the  other  man,  more  or  less  under  the  influence  of 


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liquor,  made  his  way  to  a saloon  on  the  corner,  and  dis- 
appeared inside. 

God  only  knows  the  struggle  such  men  have  to  endure 
in  making  their  escape.  John  Milton  says: 

“It  is  a long  way  from  hell  up  to  light, ’ ’ 

and  many  a man  who  has  made  the  climb  from  the  hell 
of  drunkenness  up  to  the  light  of  manly  self-control  has 
had  that  truth  burned  into  both  soul  and  body.  What 
Christian  will  refuse  his  or  her  whole-hearted  help  to 
shut  the  gaping  legalized  door  that  opens  to  engulf  a 
man  making  the  heroic  effort  to  escape  ? 

ALCOHOL  vg.  EFFICIENCY 

On  the  street  level  of  Nos.  16  and  18  West  Twenty- 
fourth  street.  New  York  city,  is  the  very  remarkable  ex- 
hibit of  the  American  Museum  of  Safety.  A large  il- 
luminated sign,  “Safety,”  stretches  over  the  sidewalk. 
It  calls  attention  to  the  always  interesting  and  sugges- 
tive exhibits  in  the  show  windows,  in  front  of  which 
there  is  usually  a crowd  gathered.  There  is  also,  on  the 
ground  floor,  an  auditorium  and  a screen  for  moving 
pictures,  where  lectures  are  given  daily.  By  these  lec- 
tures Dr.  William  H.  Tolman,  the  director,  expects  to 
teach  the  value  of  “Safety  First”  in  the  factory,  on 
the  railways,  and  in  the  streets ; and  also  the  lesson  that 
safety  means  the  shielding  of  the  children  in  the  house- 
hold within  the  home  and  a standard  of  truer  living. 

A section  is  devoted  to  industrial  dietetics,  in  which 
the  sight-seer  may  note  the  relative  values  of  condensed 
milk  and  fresh  milk,  of  rye  flour  and  cornmeal.  Over 
several  glass  cases,  in  which  evidence  is  presented  to 


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prove  the  truth  of  the  statement,  one  reads  that  “Alcohol 
Lessens  Efficiency.” 

The  membership  of  the  Museum  of  Safety  includes 
steam  and  electric  railways,  gas  and  electric  corporations 
and  a multitude  of  great  industrial  and  manufacturing 
companies. 

It  is  from  these  sources  we  are  drawing  to-day  our 
armies  of  reinforcement  for  Prohibition. 


BOOZE  AND  UNIFORMS 

Collier’s  Weekly  calls  attention  to  an  interesting  re- 
port of  Colonel  Mans,  Surgeon-General  of  the  Eastern 
Department  of  the  United  States  Army,  who  has  recently 
been  retired  after  a record-breaking  service  of  forty-one 
years  in  the  Medical  Corps.  He  is  the  man  who  organ- 
ized our  public  health  service  in  the  Philippines,  and 
cleaned  Manila  of  the  bubonic  plague,  leprosy  and  small- 
pox. If  knowledge,  skill  and  accomplishment  are  any- 
thing, this  man  is  an  authority.  He  has  pointed  out  re- 
peatedly that  soldiers  do  not  know  how  to  use  alcohol 
and  never  wiU;  that  booze  was  responsible  for  a large 
part  of  the  disastrous  stomach  troubles  and  mental 
breakdowns  of  our  soldiers  in  the  Cuban  and  Philippine 
campaigns.  His  final  verdict  on  the  whole  subject  is  as 
follows:  “Practically  all  the  crime  committed  in  the 
Army,  directly  or  indirectly,  can  be  traced  to  the  effect 
of  alcohol.  Murders,  robberies,  desertions,  courtmartial 
and  dismissal  of  officers,  prison  and  guardhouse  sen- 
tences of  enlisted  men,  fights,  brawls,  broken  friendships, 
misery,  wretchedness  and  moral  degeneracy,  should 
generally  Se  ascribed  to  the  use  of  intoxicants.  ’ ’ 

If  the  great  war  in  Europe  has  proved  nothing  else,  it 


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has  proved  that  Colonel  Mans  is  exactly  right.  But  it  is 
not  only  among  soldiers  where  it  works  such  fearful 
havoc.  It  is  just  as  dangerous  for  railroad  men.  It 
works  the  same  carnage  among  miners  and  steel-workers 
and  carpenters.  It  is  the  foe  of  humanity,  and  the  same 
logic  that  will  shut  it  away  from  soldiers  will  exact  Na- 
tional Prohibition  for  the  benefit  of  our  common  hu- 
manity. 


AN  ECONOMIC  FOLLY 

Five  hundred  business  men  of  San  Francisco  and 
Oakland  have  organized  a business  man’s  league  to  fight 
for  Prohibition  in  California.  Their  slogan  is  “The 
Saloon  is  an  Economic  Folly  and  Must  Go.”  Here  is  a 
part  of  their  published  statement:  “The  liquor  traffic 
exists  at  the  expense  of  all  other  industries.  The  revenue 
to  the  State,  derived  from  liquor  licenses,  is  overbalanced 
by  losses  to  the  State  inseparable  from  the  use  of  liquor. 
Its  elimination  is  good  business,  because  it  will  promote 
thrift,  economy  and  prosperity.  This  will  mean  more 
work  and  better  wages.  "We  therefore  favor  the  passage 
of  either  or  both  of  the  two  proposed  amendments  affect- 
ing the  liquor  traffic,  to  be  voted  upon  this  fall  by  the 
electorate  of  California.” 


THE  GREAT  REMOVER 

A New  Jersey  newspaper,  the  Better  Citizen,  prints 
this  striking  editorial:  “An  exchange  says  alcohol  will 
remove  stains  from  summer  clothes.  The  exchange  is 
right.  Alcohol  will  also  remove  the  summer  clothes,  also 
the  spring,  autumn  and  winter  clothes,  not  only  from  the 
one  who  drinks  it,  but  from  wife  and  family  as  well.  It 


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will  also  remove  the  household  furniture,  the  eatables 
from  the  pantry,  the  smiles  from  the  face  of  the  wife, 
the  laugh  from  the  lips  of  innocent  children,  and  the 
happiness  from  the  home.  As  a remover  of  things  al- 
cohol has  no  equal.  ’ ’ 

Oh,  how  one  could  go  on  elaborating  in  that  vein! 
How  often  it  takes  away  the  keen  sense  of  honor  from  the 
drinker’s  mind  and  heart!  How  often  it  removes  his 
love  for  his  parents,  his  wife  and  his  children!  How 
often  it  lures  him  to  crime  and  turns  a promising  career 
into  the  criminal’s  path  of  shame  and  ruin!  Yes,  alco- 
hol is  the  great  remover ! 

WRECKAGE  OF  THE  SALOON 

Chauneey  M.  Depew,  the  most  famous  after-dinner 
speaker  for  the  last  fifty  years,  recently  being  in  a rem- 
iniscent mood,  said : “It  has  been  a study  with  me  to 
mark  boys  who  started  with  me,  on  every  grade  of  life, 
to  see  what  has  become  of  them.  ...  It  is  remarkable 
that  every  one  of  those  who  drank  is  dead.  Barring  a 
few  who  were  taken  off  by  sickness,  every  one  who  proved 
a wreck,  and  wrecked  his  family,  did  it  from  rum,  and 
from  no  other  cause.” 

When  Billy  Sunday  was  fighting  booze  with  character- 
istic earnestness  in  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.,  he  pointed  out 
that,  according  to  the  annual  report  of  the  officials  of 
the  county  almshouse  of  the  county  in  which  that  city 
is  situated,  every  one  of  the  424  unfortunates  who  had 
gone  over  the  hill  to  the  poorhouse  was  addicted  to  the 
use  of  intoxicating  drinks.  Not  one  total  abstainer  had 
been  committed  to  that  almshouse. 

If  you  would  stop  this  horrible  tide  of  wreckage,  swat 
the  saloon  with  National  Prohibition! 


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WORSE  THAN  WAR 

I have  been  reading  in  the  British  Weekly  recently  an 
article  by  Lloyd  Thomas,  in  which  he  brings  out  with 
graphic  clearness  the  stern  fact  that  there  are  worse 
things  than  death : that  there  is  a deeper  hell  than  war. 

Shattered  limbs  strewn  about  the  streets  and  battle- 
field may  cause  the  sensitive  to  shrink  and  shudder,  but, 
to  the  eyes  that  can  picture  the  invisible  forces  that 
make  for  righteousness  these  physical  horrors  are  as 
nothing  compared  with  shattered  fidelities  and  sanctities 
flung  to  the  winds.  Human  blood  running  in  the  gutters 
of  great  cities,  and  making  the  grass  of  the  fields  and 
meadows  sickly  soft  and  slippery  to  the  feet,  makes  us 
ill  to  think  of,  but  what  is  this  compared  with  the  un- 
seen soul  of  civilization  for  which  the  blood  was  shed  ? 

Bodies  dead  and  maimed;  bodies  of  fathers,  brothers, 
sons,  husbands,  lovers,  piled  in  heaps,  make  a ghastly 
spectacle  that  sends  a tremor  through  the  bravest  heart ; 
but  how  much  more  terrible  is  it  to  have  not  only  bodies 
but  souls  rotten  and  corrupt  all  through  the  world — 
souls  dying  and  dead  and  damned ! 

The  liquor  saloon  not  only  maims  and  mars  the  bodies 
of  men,  but  fouls  their  souls  with  the  slime  of  a corrod- 
ing poison.  It  not  only  makes  widows  and  orphans,  but 
it  strips  them  of  any  fond  and  honorable  memory  of 
their  dead.  The  son  of  a man  who  has  fallen  as  a patriot 
soldier,  fighting  to  guard  his  home  and  family  and  native 
land,  has  a sacred  heritage  that  he  will  cherish  as  long 
as  he  lives,  and  hand  down  with  pride  to  his  children 
after  him;  but  the  drunkard’s  orphan  child  has  a heri- 
tage of  shame.  When  he  hears  other  boys  or  men  speak 
of  their  honored  fathers,  he  listens  with  a blush  and  a 
shudder. 


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There  is  no  honorable  pension  for  the  drunkard’s 
widow.  For  her  the  nation’s  memorial  days  and  the 
folds  of  her  country’s  flag  have  no  thrill  of  inspiring 
memory  which  recalls  the  heroic  deeds  of  sacrifice  which 
served  as  the  altar  on  which  she  bravely  laid  her  heart’s 
deepest  love.  Ah,  no!  only  the  stigma  of  a drunkard’s 
widow,  with  the  fear  that  the  hellish  taint  of  the  drunk- 
ard’s appetite  may  cling  to  the  blood  of  her  son  to  haunt 
her  waking  hours  and  disturb  her  dreams  at  night ! 

Yes,  the  saloon  is  worse — it  digs  a hell  deeper  than 
war. 


THE  ENORMOUS  TIDE  OF  DRUNKENNESS 

Unless  constantly  reminded,  we  are  in  danger  of  un- 
derestimating the  fearful  toll  which  the  saloon  is  taking 
of  the  manhood  and  womanhood  of  the  nation. 

At  Old  St.  Paul’s  Club,  411  Spruce  street,  Philadel- 
phia, is  carried  on  a work  of  reclaiming  drunkards. 
Earnest  effort  is  made  to  win  men  from  drunkenness,  se- 
cure them  employment  and  encourage  them  to  lead  sober 
lives.  The  work  has  been  very  successful  and  hundreds 
of  down-and-out  men  have  been  reclaimed  there,  their 
feet  set  again  on  the  rounds  of  the  ladder  leading  up- 
ward to  a sober  and  a happy  life. 

This  club  has  been  going  on  only  five  years.  The  work- 
ers held  their  fifth  anniversary  on  the  13th  of  June  this 
year.  In  that  short  time  45,000  drunkards  have  been 
registered  in  that  one  club  in  that  one  city. 

Wliat  a frightful  window  that  is,  looking  in  on  the 
awful  tide  of  drunkenness  that  is  sweeping  men  down  to 
hell  like  flies.  An  average  of  9,000  a year  of  drunken 
men  passing  through  this  one  door,  groping  in  the  dark- 
ness after  help.  Think  how  many  drunkards  there  must 


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have  been  staggering  their  hopeless  course  in  all  the  cities 
of  the  land  during  that  year,  and  all  the  years. 

In  God’s  name,  let  us  redouble  our  diligence  to  shut 
the  devilish  factories  which  are  turning  out  drunkards 
at  this  fearful  rate. 

National  Prohibition  will  do  it. 

TAKING  DOWN  THEIR  SIGNS 

The  Philadelphia  Lager  Beer  Brewers’  Association 
has  ordered  the  saloon-keepers  to  remove  from  the  fronts 
of  their  saloons  all  whisky  and  beer  signs  and  all  placards 
of  every  description  advertising  the  sale  of  intoxicants. 
The  leaders  of  the  liquor  business  say  that  they  hope  in 
this  way  to  stem  the  rapidly  rising  tide  of  sentiment 
against  liquor  which  is  swelling  to  dangerous  levels  in 
Pennsylvania.  They  point  out  that  beer  and  whisky 
signs  only  call  unwelcome  attention  to  the  presence  of 
saloons  and  serve  as  a constant  irritant  to  the  decent 
people  of  the  community. 

What  a confession  that  is ! What  hardware  merchant 
or  grocery  or  dry  goods  merchant  would  think  of  taking 
down  his  sign  for  fear  of  stirring  up  wrath  against  his 
business?  This  taking  down  the  liquor  signs  is  only 
prophetic,  however,  for  National  Prohibition  will  bring 
them  all  down  very  shortly. 


THEY  ARE  GETTING  WHAT  IS  COMING  TO  THEM 

The  Michigan  Christian  Advocate  tells  a good  story 
of  how  the  Goedel  Brewing  Company,  of  Detroit,  wrote 
to  Mr.  F.  L.  Baldwin,  of  the  Escanaba  Journal,  asking 
for  advertising  rates  and  whether  or  not  he  would  ob- 
ject to  running  bottled  beer  advertising  in  his  publica- 


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tion,  as  they  contemplated  doing  advertising  in  his  city 
during  the  spring  months.  They  got  a reply  straight 
from  the  shoulder.  The  reply  was  dated  the  same  day  the 
letter  was  received.  It  read : “We  take  pleasure  in  saying 
that  advertising  space  in  the  Journal  is  not  for  sale  to 
any  branch  of  the  liquor  or  brewing  trade  at  any  price. 
We  give  the  business  plenty  of  free  advertising,  but  it 
is  not  of  the  nature  that  you  wish  to  pay  for,  as  we 
always  prepare  our  own  copy.  I most  sincerely  hope 
that  the  voters  of  the  State  of  Michigan  will  vote  you 
out  of  business  in  November,  1916,  and  I assure  you 
that  I shall  do  all  within  my  power,  both  personally  and 
through  the  columns  of  the  Journal,  to  show  them  that 
it  is  their  duty  to  themselves,  their  homes,  their  country 
and  their  God  to  do  so.  ’ ’ 

That  is  the  kind  of  back  talk  these  enemies  of  human 
happiness  are  getting  these  days  from  all  directions. 


THE  CANT  OF  INTEMPERANCE 

We  have  heard  of  “The  cant  of  the  temperance  re- 
former” so  often  from  the  liquor  people  that  it  is  re- 
freshing to  have  Dr.  J.  H.  Crooker  turn  the  tables  with 
the  phrase,  “The  cant  of  intemperance.”  The  imme- 
diate reason  for  this  apt  coinage  is  a comment  on  the 
claim  of  the  liquor  people  that  human  nature  craves  a 
stimulant  and  therefore  the  saloon  is  a necessity.  He 
points  out  that  alcohol,  according  to  the  best  science,  is 
not  a stimulant  but  a paralyzer.  We  do  indeed  need 
social  excitement.  Wholesome  pleasures  are  necessary 
to  us,  but  the  exhilaration  through  drink,  which  means 
the  inhibition  of  spiritual  qualities  and  disturbance  of 
physical  functions,  is  bought  at  too  great  a price.  The 


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fact  that  the  happiest  and  brightest  homes  in  the  world 
are  among  the  people  who  taboo  strong  drink  of  every 
sort  disproves  the  claim  that  alcohol  is  a social  necessity. 
Such  a claim  is  an  illustration  of  the  cant  of  intemper- 
ance. 


HOW  MANY  EMPTIES  IN  YQUR  TOWN? 

A while  ago  a certain  distiller  sent  out  a circular 
booming  a brand  of  whisky  which  he  produces,  and, 
among  other  things,  said  he  would  be  glad  to  pay  freight 
on  the  empty  bottles.  The  Rev.  R.  M.  Evans,  of  the 
Trinity  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  Des  Moines, 
Iowa,  got  one  of  these  circulars  and  published  his  reply 
in  the  Des  Moines  Register  and  Leader.  It  goes  straight 
to  the  point.  Dr.  Evans  says  to  the  distiller:  ‘T  note 
you  pay  the  freight  on  returned  empties.  I would  like 
to  send  you  a full  carload  of  empties  if  you  will  honor 
your  agreement.  I suppose  the  freight  will  be  much 
cheaper  on  full  carload  lots?  To  be  honest  with  you, 
the  empties  are  not  in  first-class  condition.  They  con- 
sist of  empty  men — empty  of  manhood,  energy,  ambition, 
prospects,  self-respect,  and  necessaries  of  life — empty 
head,  empty  heart,  empty  soul,  empty  stomach.  Also 
empty  women,  empty  of  womanhood,  refinement,  modes- 
ty and  hope.  Will  it  be  worth  while  making  the  return 
of  this  carload  of  empties  ? Will  this  carload  of  empties 
be  worth  the  freight  to  you?” 

Alas,  these  empties  throng  the  streets  of  our  big 
towns  and  cities  wherever  liquor  is  sold.  It  does  not 
take  a very  big  county  or  town  to  furnish  a carload,  and 
only  a small  city  could  often  turn  out  a trainload  of 
these  miserable  empties  and  many  of  our  big  cities  could 
send  back  trainloads  every  week  of  these  wretched  men 


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and  women,  whose  arms  and  hearts  have  been  emptied 
of  every  precious  and  sacred  thing  through  drink. 

How  many  empties  are  there  in  your  town,  and  what 
are  you  doing  to  put  a stop  to  this  sad  wreckage  ? 


THE  NEW  LAUNDRY  ACCOUNTS 

Nothing  has  fired  my  imagination  so  much  in  recent 
months  as  the  word  from  Denver,  Colo.,  of  the  unparal- 
leled prosperity  of  the  laundries  of  that  city  since  Pro- 
hibition actually  came  into  force  there.  This  impresses 
me  more  than  the  fact  that  over  2,000  new  savings  banks 
accounts  were  started  the  first  three  dry  months,  tho, 
of  course,  they  are  closely  related.  But  think  of  the 
worn-out  women  released  from  the  washtub,  and  now 
able  to  send  their  family  washing  to  the  laundrj’’,  and  pay 
for  it  with  money  that  heretofore  has  been  going  into  the 
saloon  till. 

A DANGEROUS  PRIVILEGED  CLASS 

In  his  new  book,  “The  Logic  of  Prohibition,”  just 
published  by  the  Star  Publishing  Company  of  Pasadena, 
Cal.,  Dr.  Matt  S.  Hughes  has  an  exceedingly  telling 
chapter  entitled  “Turning  State’s  Evidence,”  in  which 
he  takes  up  the  oft-repeated  declaration  of  the  liquor 
people  that  “Prohibition  does  not  prohibit.”  He  points 
out  that  such  a statement  as  that  by  the  saloon  forces 
hints  at  anarchy,  pure  and  simple.  The  theory  on  which 
government  rests  is  that  the  majority  shall  rule,  yet 
these  reckless  dealers  in  misery  and  crime  dare  to  an- 
nounce that,  tho  a majority  pass  a Prohibition  law,  they 
will  not  obey  it. 

“Does  anybody  seriously  propose,”  asks  Dr.  Hughes, 


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“to  create  a privileged  class  composed  of  liquor  dealers 
who  shall  be  acknowledged  to  be  above  the  law  of  the 
United  States — a beer  and  whisky  aristocracy  which 
shall  be  in  no  way  amenable  to  the  voice  of  the  American 
people?  No  one  suggests  a referendum  among  horse 
thieves,  train  robbers,  safebreakers  and  pickpockets  to 
ascertain  if  they  will  be  kind  enough  to  inform  us  what 
laws  they  will  be  pleased  to  obey.” 

The  saloonists  as  a privileged  class  are  rapidly  ap- 
proaching the  judgment  day. 


SPOILING  THE  JAIL  INDUSTRY 

Down  around  Richmond,  Va.,  they  are  really  using 
the  argument  in  some  heartless  circles  that  the  good 
roads  movement  has  been  struck  a death  blow  by  Pro- 
hibition, as  there  will  be  a great  dearth  of  convicts  to 
work  on  the  public  highways.  And  now  comes  the 
jailer  at  Spokane,  Wash.,  declaring  that  under 
Prohibition  the  jail  business  bids  fair  for  utter 
spoliation.  A year  ago  with  liquor  saloons  in  Spokane 
he  had  a flourishing  business,  with  130  boarders  at  the 
jail  during  March,  which  gave  him  a chance  to  make 
something,  but  under  Prohibition  they  dropt  to  only 
38  for  the  same  month  and  the  outlook  for  the  future  is 
very  dark  from  the  hotel  standpoint.  A reporter  in  the 
Spokane  Chronicle  reports  Jailer  August  Use  as  saying: 
‘ ‘ It  looks  as  if  we  might  as  well  prepare  to  close  up  our 
hotel  in  the  future.  We  have  seven  men  here  who  are  to 
be  released  now.  I do  not  believe  we  will  have  many 
prisoners  so  long  as  the  Prohibition  law  is  in  effect. 
There  are  but  half  a dozen  prisoners  here  who  are  in  for 
six  months.  As  few  arrive  it  looks  as  if  we  will  soon 


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have  many  less.  The  number  is  the  smallest  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  jail.” 

It  does  not  take  much  imagination  to  picture  the  misery 
saved  and  the  added  joy  in  the  world  suggested  by  this 
dearth  of  boarders  in  the  Spokane  jail. 


UNCLE  SAM  A GAINER  BY  OREGON  PROHIBITION 

During  the  first  three  months  of  Prohibition  in  Oregon 
not  a single  arrest  was  made  in  that  State  for  selling 
liquor  to  an  Indian,  or  taking  liquor  on  to  an  Indian 
reservation,  or  for  murder  or  assault  by  an  Indian, 
something  that  has  not  happened  for  many  years  for 
the  same  period  in  other  days. 

The  United  States  District  Attorney  at  Portland  is 
reported  to  have  said  that  if  this  effective  enforcement 
of  the  Prohibition  law  is  maintained,  the  Government 
will  be  saved  $100,000  a year  in  prosecuting  Indian 
cases  in  Oregon  alone. 

And  yet  that  is  only  in  one  State  with  one  small  class 
of  population.  Uncle  Sam  will  get  his  eyes  open  to  the 
folly  of  the  saloon  yet. 


HURRAH  FOR  CANADA! 

The  splendid  progress  of  the  Prohibition  movement  to 
the  north  of  us  should  be  an  inspiration  to  every  tem- 
perance worker  among  us.  Prince  Edward  Island,  Nova 
Scotia,  Saskatchewan,  Alberta  and  Manitoba  already 
white,  and  British  Columbia  and  Ontario  getting  ready. 
New  Brunswick  and  Quebec  will  soon  follow,  and  in  a 
very  short  time  from  the  Pacific  across  the  continent  to 
Prohibition  Newfoundland  and  on  to  the  Atlantic,  all 
north  of  us  will  be  dry.  It  is  high  time  we  were  looking 


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after  our  end  of  modern  and  progressive  civilization. 
On  to  National  Prohibition ! 

MONEY  IN  THE  TREASURY  OF  DRY  CITIES 

Mayor  Lyon,  of  Mobile,  Ala.,  is  out  with  this  striking 
statement  that  will  send  a shiver  down  the  backbone  of 
every  liquor  seller  who  reads  it:  “Mobile  is  one  city  in 
this  country,”  said  the  Mayor,  “that  discounts  its  bills. 
I am  looking  for  a lot  of  the  city’s  old  refunding  bonds 
to  retire  now.” 

Things  are  not  going  right  at  all  in  the  new  Prohibi- 
tion cities  from  the  liquor  seller’s  standpoint.  They  are 
getting  along  too  well  without  him. 


A GLORIOUS  TRANSFORMATION 

It  would  be  hard  to  imagine  a more  blest  transfor- 
mation than  has  come  over  theGJoorsSbrewery  plant  at 
Denver,  Colo.,  changing  it  from  a beer-making  establish- 
ment to  a malted  milk  manufactory.  For  years  a stream 
of  intoxication  and  strife  and  misery  has  flown  forth 
from  its  vats,  but  now  every  day  there  goes  forth  through 
all  the  Rocky  Mountain  towns  and  cities  a product  that 
brings  refreshment  and  health  wherever  it  goes,  adding 
to  the  peace  and  comfort  of  the  commonwealth.  Pro- 
hibition means  just  such  transformations  wherever  it 
goes! 


THE  GROWING  ROLL  OF  HONOR 

Where,  oh,  where,  will  the  brewers  and  distillers  ad- 
vertise their  wares  in  the  near  future?  Only  a little 
while  ago  every  daily  newspaper  in  the  country  was  with 
them  and  now  the  honor  roll  of  those  too  clean  for  their 


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dirty  feet  is  growing  every  week.  Here  comes  the  New 
York  Tribune  saying:  “As  a matter  of  business  policy 
we  recognize  the  fact — emphasized  more  forcibly  as 
each  year  passes — that  indulgence  in  alcohol  is  incom- 
patible with  efficiency  in  any  field  of  effort.  In  industry, 
trade  and  transportation,  as  well  as  in  artistic  and  pro- 
fessional pursuits,  the  man  who  uses  alcohol  habitually 
imposes  on  himself  a serious  disability. 

“"When  alcohol  is  mixed  with  business  it  is  alcohol 
which  profits,  not  business.  It  is  our  conviction  also 
that  when  alcohol  is  mixed  with  advertising  it  is  alcohol 
which  benefits,  not  advertising. 

“The  Tribune  is  setting  new  standards  of  quality. 
It  intends  to  keep  its  advertising  columns  select  and 
unimpeachable.  It  wants  to  eliminate  from  them  all 
traces  of  evil  or  even  suspicious  association.  "We  feel 
that  liquor  advertisements  will  not  help  to  attract  to  us 
either  the  readers  or  the  advertisers  whose  patronage 
we  especially  desire.  We  have  therefore  decided  to  drop 
liquor  advertisements  altogether.” 


TWO  INTERESTING  NEWS  ITEMS 

From  the  same  page  of  a daily  paper  I take  these  two 
interesting  items.  The  first  comes  from  Cumberland, 
Maryland,  June  10,  and  reads  as  follows:  “Emanuel  E. 
Johnson,  a negro  saloon-keeper  and  politician,  to-day 
was  held  responsible  by  a Coroner’s  jury  for  the  death 
of  Cordelia  Deremer,  white,  twenty  years  old,  at  Nar- 
rows Park.  Johnson  struck  the  girl  with  his  auto  last 
night.  He  was  driving  it  recklessly,  wfithout  lights,  on 
the  national  pike,  while  drunk.  The  girl  died  early  this 
morning  from  a fractured  skull.” 


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The  second  item  comes  from  New  York  city,  and  hap- 
pened the  same  day:  “Despite  the  frantic  pleas  of  his 
family  that  a fine  be  imposed,  Lionel  Doherty,  twenty- 
four  years  old,  son  of  a wealthy  retired  manufacturer, 
was  sentenced  to  thirty  days  for  operating  an  automo- 
bile while  intoxicated.  The  mother  and  sister  of  the 
young  man  were  in  court,  and  when  Justice  Herman 
announced  he  stood  committed  without  the  alternative 
of  a fine,  the  mother  fainted  and  was  carried  from  the 
courtroom.” 

Such  accounts  are  printed  every  day  in  the  papers, 
and  yet  some  people  who  make  claim  to  decency  in 
citizenship  sneer  at  the  idea  of  legally  closing  the  fac- 
tories that  turn  out  drunkards. 


WHY  THE  SALOON  MAN  HATES  BILLY  SUNDAY 

Over  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  in  Billy  Sunday’s  last 
campaign,  a newspaper  man  tells  the  story  of  a woman 
who,  in  one  of  the  meetings,  ran  down  the  aisle  to  the 
altar  in  the  tabernacle.  She  had  a -bundle  under  her 
arms  which  she  handed  to'  Mr.  Sunday.  It  contained  a 
bed  quilt  which  she  had  pieced  and  quilted  with  her  own 
hands.  And  she  cried  aloud  so  that  a great  multitude 
heard  her:  “My  husband  never  drew  a sober  breath 
for  five  years.  You  converted  him,  and  he  is  working 
and  he  hasn ’t  touched  liquor  for  five  weeks.  ’ ’ 

“Bully  for  him.”  answered  Sunday. 

“Yes,  and  we  have  family  prayers  night  and  morn- 
ing,” she  continued. 

“All  hail  the  power  of  Jesus’  name,”  replied  Sunday. 

You  can  not  blame  the  saloon  men  for  hating  Billy 
Sunday  when  he  does  things  like  that,  hundreds  of  times 


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over,  in  every  revival  campaign.  They  would  not  be 
true  to  their  business  if  they  did  not  hate  him. 

But  think  of  a business  like  that  being  allowed  to  live 
in  a Christian  land. 

$989,000  SAVED  IN  ONE  MONTH 

During  the  month  of  February,  1916,  in  the  city  of 
Seattle,  with  a population  of  360,000  souls,  4,270  of  her 
citizens  availed  themselves  of  their  legal  right  to  pur- 
chase liquors  amounting  in  the  aggregate  to  $11,000 
worth.  With  the  breweries  and  saloons  open  the  average 
liquor  bill  of  Seattle  was  $1,000,000  a month.  So  Seattle 
saved  her  citizens  under  the  Prohibition  law  $989,000, 
which  went  to  buy  clothing  and  groceries  and  furniture 
and  food  and  into  the  savings  banks  for  a rainy  day. 
That  is  the  kind  of  thing  National  Prohibition  will  do 
for  every  city  in  the  land ! 

MARYLAND’S  ROLL  OF  DISHONOR 

The  proud  old  State  of  IMaryland  has  hatched  a brood 
of  Judases,  that  cause  her  good  citizens  great  shame. 
These  men  were  elected  to  the  Legislature  on  their  assur- 
ance that  they  would  stand  for  the  State-wide  Prohibi- 
tion bill,  and  then  when  they  came  into  their  place  of 
power  they,  like  Judas,  betrayed  their  Lord  and  for- 
feited their  honor.  These  men  should  be  pilloried  in 
every  pulpit  in  Maryland.  A great  man  once  said, 
“Great  scoundrels  make  great  texts  for  great  sermons.” 
These  men,  because  of  the  trust  they  betrayed,  are  great 
scoundrels  and  should  be  held  up  to  the  shame  and  ig- 
nominy they  deserve.  They  have  committed  the  crime 
of  Judas,  but  lack  his  keen  sense  of  shame,  or  not  one 
of  them  would  be  unhanged. 


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A SHRINKAGE  WHICH  MEANS  BLESSING 

Even  in  our  modern  Babylon,  supposed  to  be  free  from 
Prohibition  fears,  estates  depending  on  income  from 
breweries  are  pronounced  to  be  risky  and  shrinkage  is  be- 
coming painful.  An  appraiser  of  the  estate  of  Joseph 
Liebman,  who  died  in  1913,  said  recently  in  his  report: 
“I  am  not  unmindful  of  the  fact  that  in  the  past  the 
company  has  earned  large  profits.  There  is,  however, 
evidence  in  the  record  before  me,  and  other  evidence  of 
which  I take  judicial  notice,  that  there  is  a strong  Prohi- 
bition movement  all  over  the  world,  that  excise  taxes 
both  in  this  and  in  neighboring  States  have  been  con- 
stantly increasing,  and  that  local  option  must  neces- 
sarily affect  to  a large  extent  the  future  profits  of  this 
company.” 

Every  such  shrinkage  means  the  enlargement  of  the 
income  of  hundreds  and  thousands  of  working  men 
whose  waste  and  folly  have  contributed  to  the  brewer’s 
wealth. 


MAKING  A NEW  RECORD 

The  simon  pure  brand  of  Prohibition  on  in  Georgia  is 
working  what  would  have  seemed  miracles  if  prophesied 
before  the  State  went  dry.  Take  this-  note  from  a 
recent  paper : ‘ ‘ The  State  of  Georgia ’s  new  Prohibition 
laws  are  establishing  numerous  records  of  various-  kinds 
in  the  city  of  Atlanta,  but  perhaps  none  are  more  re- 
markable and  significant  than  the  record  of  arrests  by 
the  police  and  eases  tried  by  the  Recorder.  Prom  4 
o’clock  Monday  afternoon.  May  29th,  until  4 on  the 
morning  of  May  30th,  not  a single  arrest  was  made, 
which  was  a record  without  a parallel  since  Atlanta  be- 
gan to  keep  a police  docket.” 


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How  demoralizing  to  the  police  of  a big  city  to  go  a 
whole  day  without  a single  prisoner!  No  wonder  the 
liquor  people  are  stirred  up  over  the  failure  of  Prohibi- 
tion in  Georgia. 


THE  DEVIL’S  TWIST 

That  alcoholic  drinking  and  social  immorality  go  hand 
in  hand  is  constantly  being  illustrated.  The  head  of  the 
Illinois  Training  School  for  Nurses  recently  gave  this 
testimony:  “During  the  past  year  400  illegitimate 
babies  were  born  in  the  county  hospital — 36  out  of  each 
100  born  there.  Since  November  of  last  year  53  girls 
under  20  years  of  age  in  the  surgical  ward  for  operations 
resulting  from  social  diseases  attributed  their  troubles 
to  the  combination  of  liquor  and  dance  halls.  The  stories 
the  girls  tell  us  almost  always  begin  in  the  same  way. 
They  went  out  for  a good  time  at  a dance  hall,  met  some 
man,  were  plied  with  liquor — and  then  they  had  to  come 
to  us.  I plead  for  the  girls  between  fifteen  and  twenty. 
Disgrace  and  disease  are  the  results  to  them  of  the  sale 
of  liquor  at  dances. 

It  is  strange  that  men  who  are  themselves  fathers  of 
daughters  whom  they  love  devotedly  will  give  their  sup- 
port to  a traffic  that  works  such  ruin  among  young 
girls. 


THE  SORROWFUL  CASE  OF  THE  SHIRKERS 

In  a great  national  crisis,  when  destiny  hangs  in  the 
balance,  the  happiest  men  are  those  who  dare  all  and 
throw  themselves  unreservedly  into  the  battle  for  the 
right. 

Sir  Robertson  MacNicoll  illustrates  this  in  a most  in- 


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teresting  manner  in  discussing  tlie  situation  in  regard  to 
enlistments  in  the  English  army.  He  says  that  those 
who  have  volunteered  and  gone  out  to  the  battle,  often 
after  long  perplexities  and  ponderings,  seem  to  enjoy  a 
singular  rest  of  heart.  This  is  the  universal  testimony 
of  those  who  have  met  the  men  while  they  have  been 
home  on  furlough  or  have  seen  them  in  hospitals.  They 
are  exhilarated  with  the  assurance  that  they  have  done 
their  utmost.  They  have  been  in  the  trenches,  they  have 
been  under  fire,  they  have  given  all  they  have  to  give. 
These  men  are  at  peace — so  blest  is  duty  and  so  happy 
are  those  who  take  the  high  road. 

On  the  other  hand,  those  who  ought  to  go  and  in  their 
hearts  know  it,  are  the  most  miserable  of  men.  I am  not 
speaking  of  cowards,  or  those  in  whom  the  sense  of 
honor  is  dead.  I am  speaking  of  shirkers. 

In  every  time  of  national  peril  there  are  shirkers  to  be 
found  all  over  the  country.  They  are  often  honorable 
men,  but  they  shrink  from  the  great  sacrifice.  There  is 
so  much  to  detain  them.  There  are  so  many  ties  to 
break.  There  are  so  many  plausible  reasons  for  holding 
back,  so  many  passable  excuses  for  keeping  clear  of  the 
fight.  But  they  have  no  peace  day  or  night.  If  they 
were  to  tell  the  truth  they  would  say:  “Sir,  at  my 
heart  there  was  a kind  of  fighting  that  would  not  let  me 
sleep.” 

Now  I am  sure  that  we  have  among  our  ministers  and 
laymen  in  America  to-day  something  very  like  this  in  re- 
gard to  our  great  Prohibition  campaign.  There  are,  I 
am  persuaded,  many  men  of  power  and  influence  whose 
judgments  and  consciences  are  with  us.  They  abomi- 
nate the  saloon  as  the  source  of  every  foul  thing  and  yet 
for  social  or  business  reasons  they  have  been  shirking 


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their  full  duty  in  an  open  enlistment  that  would  not  only 
bring  great  support  to  the  cause  but  bring  great  joy  and 
inspiration  to  their  own  Christian  service. 

National  Prohibition  will  leap  to  triumph  if  all  the 
men  who  have  been  shirking  their  duty  will  now  volun- 
teer to  fight  the  battle  to  a finish. 


WHEN  THE  STARS  COME  OUT 

Dr.  Robertson  Nicoll,  the  great  English  editor,  heard 
a story  of  Henry  Ward  Beecher  as  a child,  from  which 
he  draws  an  inspiring  and  comforting  lesson  of  good 
cheer  in  the  midst  of  the  hard  struggles  of  life. 

Lyman  Beecher’s  family  observed  the  Sabbath  after 
the  strict  old  New  England  manner,  from  Saturday 
night  until  Sunday  night.  On  Sunday  night,  however, 
the  children  of  the  Beecher  family  were  allowed  to  be- 
gin playing  as  soon  as  three  stars  came  out.  Dr.  Nicoll 
says,  in  comment  on  this:  “We  should  begin  to  be 
happy  as  soon  as  we  can,  not  waiting  for  a great  noon- 
tide, not  waiting  even  for  a heaven  crowded  with  stars. 
Let  us  make  the  most  of  the  little  we  have,  be  happy  as 
soon  and  as  much  and  as  long  as  possible.  Let  us  begin 
to  rejoice  as  soon  as  three  stars  come  out.” 

This  is  a good  suggestion  for  the  faithful  men  and 
women  all  over  America  who  have  borne  the  burden  and 
heat  of  the  day  for  the  last  thirty  or  forty  years  of 
the  temperance  campaign.  It  is  time  for  us  to  throw 
up  our  hats  and  begin  to  play ! Through  the  long  vigil 
there  has  often  not  been  much  cause  for  rejoicing,  but 
now  what  a glorious  sky  stretches  over  our  hearts ! But 
a year  ago  there  were  only  nine  stars  shining,  and  now 
twenty-four  blaze  forth  their  Prohibition  light  in  our 


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heavens.  And  there  will  be  more,  please  God,  before 
the  year  is  passed.  It  is  a time  for  gladness — a time  to 
thank  God  and  take  courage. 


THE  SELFISHNESS  AND  TREASON  OF  THE  LIQUOR 
TRAFFIC 

The  absolute  disloyalty  and  selfishness  of  the  people 
engaged  in  the  liquor  business  was  never  more  strikingly 
illustrated  than  in  the  fearful  crisis  in  which  England 
finds  herself  through  the  drunkenness  of  working  men  in 
the  great  factories  where  guns  and  ammunition  are  be- 
ing produced  for  her  armies. 

The  press  and  the  leading  public  men  of  England  are 
practically  a unit  in  their  approval  of  Lloyd-George’s 
famous  statement  that  the  use  of  liquor  in  English 
workshops  is  as  dangerous  an  enemy  to  England  as  are 
Germany  and  Austria ; and  yet  thus  far  their  hands  are 
tied  in  the  presence  of  the  enemy  by  the  influence  of 
powerful  citizens,  many  of  whom  are  members  of  the 
English  nobility,  who  are  owners  of  the  breweries  and 
distilleries, 

Mr.  Lloyd-George  made  a masterly  appeal  one  day 
to  employers  and  working  men  in  Manchester,  in  which 
he  declared  that  the  enemy  would  have  long  since  been 
driven  out  of  Belgium  and  Prance  but  for  the  lack  of 
equipment  in  the  way  of  munitions.  But  none  of  these 
things  move  the  brewer  or  distiller,  whose  financial 
paunch  has  been  swelled  by  the  infamous  trade  in  strong 
drink.  The  liquor  traffic  has  no  heart,  no  conscience,  no 
enlightened  patriotic  sentiment : it  has  only  a paunch  in 
which  to  greedily  gorge  the  ill-gotten  gains  that  come 
from  the  degradation  of  individuals,  the  spoliation  of 


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homes,  and  the  peril  and  possible  ruin  of  the  nation. 
To  such  a traffic  there  is  nothing  to  which  appeal  can  be 
made.  The  bludgeon  of  the  law  that  batters  the  beastly 
carcass  to  death  under  absolute  Prohibition  is  the  only 
relief  against  such  an  enemy  of  society  and  civilization. 

THE  SLUMP  IN  BOOZE 

Collier’s  Weekly  calls  attention  to  the  fact  that,  ac- 
cording to  the  Wctll  Street  Journal,  of  New  York  city: 
“Production  of  whisky  in  Kentucky  in  January  was 
1,980,000  gallons,  against  6,102,452  gallons  in  January, 
1914;  production  in  Pennsylvania  was  1,073,808  gallons 
in  January,  against  1,552,445  a year  ago,  and  in  Mary- 
land 506,919  gallons,  against  918,582  last  year.  Whisky 
bottled  in  bond  in  January  was  691,508  gallons  compared 
with  928,187  in  January,  1914.  The  decrease  in  Ken- 
tucky’s production  of  whisky  amounts  to  66%  per  cent.; 
in  Pennsylvania  it  is  about  23  per  cent. ; in  ]\Iaryland 
more  than  40  per  cent.” 

These  figures,  and  many  other  figures  which  are  avail- 
able from  different  parts  of  the  country,  show  that  the 
distillers  are  looking  ahead  and  are  very  sure  that  the 
demand  for  whisky  will  fall  off  more  rapidly  in  the 
future  than  it  has  in  the  past.  These  men  are  spend- 
ing large  sums  of  money  to  advertise  their  business 
wherever  they  can  get  a paper  that  will  print  their 
stuff,  making  bold  claims  that  Prohibition  does  not  pro- 
hibit. But  it  is  all  stuff.  Wherever  they  can  find  a 
sucker  they  are  unloading  their  stock,  and  all  the  time 
they  are  curtailing  their  production,  and  discounting 
their  own  funeral.  Nobody  sees  more  clearly  than  the 
intelligent  leaders  of  the  liquor  business  that  the  judg- 


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ment  day  for  the  brewery  and  the  distillery  and  the 
saloon  is  at  hand.  A few  years  more  and  these  names 
will  fall  into  “innocuous  desuetude,”  and  be  recalled 
only  as  relics  of  the  past. 


LET  US  SEE  THE  END  OF  THE  FIGHT 

Dan  Poling,  my  fellow  Oregonian,  tells  this  touching 
story  concerning  his  little  son  whom  he  was  compelled 
not  long  ago  to  take  to  a surgeon  for  a painful  opera- 
tion. As  the  wee  lad  realized  that  he  must  submit  to 
the  ordeal  and  the  anesthetic  was  about  to  be  adminis- 
tered by  the  attendant,  he  put  his  arms  around  his 
father’s  neck  and  pleaded,  “Daddy,  you’ll  stay  through, 
won’t  you?”  The  father  promised,  but  as  the  surgeon 
began  the  performance  of  his  task,  the  father  found  it 
almost  more  than  he  could  endure  to  watch  by  the  bed- 
side of  the  little  sufferer,  but,  mindful  of  his  promise,  he 
remained.  When  a little  later  the  child  opened  his  eyes 
and  looked  up  into  the  father’s  face,  his  first  words 
were,  “Daddy,  did  you  stay  through?”  “And  wo  be 
it  to  me,”  replied  Mr.  Poling,  “had  I failed  to  keep  faith 
with  the  lad.”  To  stay  through  in  the  great  work  in 
which  we  are  engaged,  to  stay  through  until  this  land 
is  without  a saloon  or  a brewery  or  a distillery,  until  the 
people  of  America  and  of  the  world  are  sober,  this  is  our 
high  privilege,  our  stupendous  opportunity. 

THE  FLAW 

Dan  Crawford  say  that  in  the  south  of  Africa  there 
is  a certain  kind  of  civilization  advancing,  the  civiliza- 
tion that  brings  drink,  gambling  and  all  the  rest 
with  it. 


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‘ ‘ It  was  down  that  way,  ’ ’ he  states,  ‘ ‘ that  I was  start- 
ing out  for  England,  down  by  the  railway  head,  where 
I and  my  black  friends  bade  each  other  good-by.  Oh, 
how  they  looked  at  that  railway ! Then  they  asked 
me  to  explain  to  them  about  some  of  the  things  belong- 
ing to  your  so-called  civilization.  So  I began  gushing 
about  all  your  wonderful  civilization.  How  they 
looked  and  listened  as  I went  on  telling  them  of  au- 
tomobiles, submarines,  aeroplanes,  and  everything  else, 
trying  to  draw  a wondering  look  from  them.  I noticed 
one  man  with  an  uncomfortable  look  in  his  eyes.  I 
could  see  he  was  waiting  for  me  the  way  a cat  waits  for 
a rat.  Finally  he  said,  as  I stopt:  ‘Are  you  finished?’ 
And  then  he  punctured  my  tire  with  a bang.  I will 
never  forget  it.  He  said : ‘ To  be  better  off  is  not  to  be 
better.’  ” 

Even  if  it  were  true,  which  it  is  not,  that  a town 
would  be  better  off  financially  with  saloons  than  with- 
out them,  the  fact  would  still  remain  that  for  every- 
thing worth  while  in  personal  and  home  life  it  would  be 
a poorer,  meaner  town  because  of  them. 

A SALOON-KEEPER’S  PALACE  TOMB 

Three  years  ago  Bartholomew  Shea,  a rich  liquor 
seller  in  Philadelphia,  died,  and  in  his  will  left  instruc- 
tions that  $110,000  of  his  estate  should  be  used  to  build 
a marble  mausoleum  in  Holy  Cross  Cemetery. 

The  heirs  were  unwilling  to  give  up  so  large  a slice  of 
the  inheritance  to  a resting-place  for  the  saloon-keeper’s 
bones  and  so  have  been  lawing  about  it  for  three 
years.  A few  days  ago  a compromise  was  made  and 
$74,050  are  to  be  used  to  build  of  granite  and  Tennessee 


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marble  an  exact  replica  of  the  famous  temple  of  Theseus 
in  ancient  Greece.  And  there,  at  last,  the  saloon-keep- 
er’s body  shall  crumble  back  to  dust. 

It  is  impossible  to  reflect  on  a saloon-keeper’s  grave 
costing  $74,000  without  wondering  how  many  men  have 
been  beggared  and  gone  hungry  and  slept  in  a pauper’s 
grave  to  help  build  it.  We  wonder  how  many  women 
have  toiled  over  the  washtub,  with  aching  backs  and 
aching  hearts,  that  this  saloon-keeper  might  have  a mar- 
ble palace  to  rot  in  at  the  last.  We  wonder  how  many 
^ orphan  children  have  grown  up  among  strangers  with- 
out a father’s  instruction,  and  without  a mother’s  tender 
guidance,  that  the  blood  money  might  pile  up  high 
enough  to  build  this  $74,000  tomb  for  a saloon-keeper 
who  fattened  on  the  tears  and  breaking  hearts  and  dis- 
eased bodies  of  men  and  women  and  children  whom  his 
business  debauched ! 

That  this  man  might  have  a home  of  granite  and 
marhle  in  which  to  decay,  after  his  evil  and  useless  days 
are  ended,  scores  of  families  have  gone  homeless  and 
multitudes  become  waifs  and  tramps. 

How  long,  0 Lord,  how  long  will  Christian  men  and 
women  stand  for  things  like  that ! 


THE  DEVIL’S  CATACOMBS 

I saw  this  epigram  the  other  day: 

“Wine  cellars  are  the  devil’s  catacombs.” 

Thank  God  some  of  these  catacombs  get  cleaned  out 
now  and  then!  Wlien  Gen.  John  B.  Henderson  died, 
his  wife  and  son  had  the  liquors  brought  forth  and 
poured  in  the  gutter.  Thank  heaven  for  every  such  a 


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revelation  of  an  aroused  conscience.  What  one  woman 
did  for  one  cellar  all  the  women  of  the  land  will  help 
do  for  a nation  some  of  these  days — give  it  a general 
cleaning  up. 


THE  SALOON  SOCIAL 

A good  deal  is  made  out  of  the  fact  that  the  saloon  is 
a social  center  for  homeless  men.  And  there  can  be  no 
question  that  a great  many  men  make  their  first  visits 
to  the  saloon  through  the  social  instinct.  Most  men  be- 
gan to  drink  intoxicating  liquor  in  the  same  way.  They 
have  no  appetite  for  it ; indeed,  to  most  men  it  is  repul- 
sive at  first,  and  they  drink  it  simply  to  please  a friend 
or  to  appear  sociable. 

Now,  it  is  all  right  to  have  a social  center,  but  why 
sell  poison?  Men  can  be  as  truly  sociable  without  the 
alcohol  as  with  it.  It  is  not  necessary  to  quicken  into 
action  a man’s  baser  nature  in  order  that  he  may  find 
joy  in  conversation  with  his  friends.  This  saloon  social 
is  much  overworked. 

THE  GREATEST  VICTORY  OF  ALL 

David  Lloyd-George,  the  Welshman  of  his  generation, 
by  all  odds  the  greatest  personality  brought  to  the  front 
in  Great  Britain  by  the  war,  made  this  most  extraor- 
dinary statement  the  other  day,  expressing  his  hope 
\J  that  England  would  be  comdneed  that  success  in  war 
depended  largely  upon  removing  the  drag  on  its  ef- 
ficiency caused  by  drink.  And  the  great  man  added 
that  no  possible  victory  won  in  the  war  could  equal  a 
victory  over  drink,  which  would  prove  the  crowning  tri- 
umph of  all.  That  supreme  victory  of  modern  cmliza- 


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tion  is  within  our  reach  if  we  can  summon  all  the 
Christian  forces  of  America  to  one  great  strong  pull 
all  together. 

THE  CHANGING  SCENERY  UNDER  PROHIBITION 

Miss  Anna  Gordon,  president  of  the  Woman’s  Chris- 
tion  Temperance  Union,  returning  from  an  extended  trip 
through  the  Northwest,  says:  “Perhaps  the  most  inter- 
esting sights  during  my  whole  trip  were  the  trans- 
formed breweries  in  Idaho  and  Colorado.  When  I was 
taken  for  an  automobile  drive  in  Pocatello,  I asked  that 
I might  see  the  big  brewery  that  is  now  a soft  drink 
establishment,  and  which  is  doing  a good  business.  The 
temperance  people  of  Idaho,  however,  are  alive  to  the 
fact  that  the  soft  drinks  will  bear  watching  and  are  con- 
stantly on  their  guard.  In  Boise,  also,  I saw  a cold  stor- 
age plant  which  had  formerly  been  a brewery,  and  while 
in  Denver  I looked  upon  the  million-dollar  brewery 
changed  into  a malted  milk  factory.  Every  one  of  these 
places  is  doing  a fine  business,  employing  as  many,  if 
not  more,  men  than  formerly,  and  supplying  the  public 
with  useful  and  necessary  commodities  in  place  of 
poison  beverages.” 

Still  greater  transformations  are  just  ahead. 

SALOON  LOSING  STANDING  IN  COURT 

In  a Chicago  Court  occurred  an  incident  which  shows 
how  judges  are  beginning  to  hold  saloon-keepers  respon- 
sible for  the  destitution  caused  by  liquor  in  the  families 
of  their  patrons.  A saloon-keeper  had  tied  up  a drinker’s 
wages  because  he  owed  a whisky  bill  of  $15.  The  wife 
appeared  before  the  judge  with  this  complaint:  “We 


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have  no  food  in  the  house,  Judge,  and  no  money  to  buy  it 
with.  Can’t  something  be  done  so  my  husband  can  get 
his  pay?” 

The  judge  released  the  husband’s  wages  and  ordered  a 
warrant  for  the  arrest  of  the  saloon-keeper  on  a charge 
of  disorderly  conduct. 

It  is  certainly  beginning  to  be  a rocky  road  to  Dublin 
for  the  saloon,  and  it’s  going  to  get  worse  and  worse 
until  there  will  be  no  road  at  all. 


NO  LONGER  A PLACE  IN  THE  SUN 

A while  ago  the  German  Emperor  was  credited  with 
saying  by  way  of  apology  for  German  aggressiveness  that 
‘ ‘ Germany  wanted  her  place  in  the  sun.  ’ ’ 

Dr.  James  R.  Joy,  the  brilliant  editor  of  the  Christian 
Advocate,  of  New  York,  takes  advantage  of  that  phrase 
in  a significant  manner  in  a very  striking  editorial  note : 

“Since  the  first  of  January  more  than  twenty  news- 
papers have  joined  the  large  number  which  no  longer 
accept  advertisements  of  liquors.  In  every  city  and 
town  where  the  local  newspaper  still  carries  liquor  ad- 
vertising the  Sunday-school  should  next  Sunday,  the 
day  of  the  temperance  lesson,  pass  formal  resolutions 
asking  the  publisher  to  exclude  such  matter  from  his 
columns,  out  of  consideration  for  the  young  people,  and 
for  the  conservation  of  the  morals  and  health  of  the 
community. 

“In  Alabama  the  new  law  forbidding  the  publica- 
tion of  liquor  advertisements  in  the  newspapers  of  the 
State  has  been  confirmed  by  a decision  of  the  highest 
courts.  On  June  10th  the  Supreme  Court  held  the  law 
constitutional  in  all  details.  The  court  further  held 


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that  its  decision  abrogated  all  contracts  for  liquor  ad- 
vertising, and  prevented  any  agencies  or  firms  from 
holding  the  newspapers  responsible  for  damages  result- 
ing from  the  cancellation  of  contracts. 

‘ ‘ The  liquor  business  has  had  its  place  in  the  sun  long 
enough.” 

Yes,  and  now  comes  Donald  Ross,  president  of  the 
Bill  Posters’  and  Distributors’  Protective  Association, 
to  testify  before  Federal  Judge  Landis  in  Chicago  in  a 
suit  brought  by  the  Government  against  the  bill  posters 
as  a combination  in  restraint  of  trade,  and  be  says  the 
directors  voted  recently  to  eliminate  all  liquor  ads  and 
that  advertisements  of  intoxicating  liquors  will  be  seen 
on  the  billboards  of  the  country  no  more. 


THE  TRUE  LIBERTY 

When  the  saloon  is  at  last  destroyed  and  drunken- 
ness with  all  its  train  of  disease  and  crime  and  sorrow 
has  ceased  out  of  the  earth,  then  will  come  the  great 
freedom  of  which  Walt  Whitman  dreamed  and  sang: 

To  Liberty 
Turn,  0 Liberty, 

Turn  from  lands  retrospective  recording  proofs  of  the 
Past. 

From  the  singers  that  sing  the  trailing  glories  of  the 
Past. 

From  the  chants  of  the  feudal  world,  the  triumphs  of 
kings,  slavery,  caste. 

Turn  to  the  world,  the  triumphs  reserv’d  and  to  come — 
give  up  that  backward  world. 

Leave  to  the  singers  of  hitherto,  give  them  the  trailing 
Past! 


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Then  turn,  and  be  not  alarm’d.  0 Liberty — turn  your 
undying  face 

To  where  the  Future,  greater  than  all  the  Past, 

Is  swiftly,  surely  preparing  for  you!” 

Every  stroke  for  national  Prohibition  hastens  that 
great  day. 


THE  FOUNTAIN  OF  EVILS 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  saloon  is  the  origin 
of  more  evils  than  any  other  institution  on  earth.  If  it 
were  the  center  and  foundation  of  drunkenness  alone, 
that  would  be  enough  to  condemn  it  as  the  mightiest  evil 
of  the  centuries,  but  when  we  reflect  that  drunken- 
ness is  only  one  expression  of  its  horrible  result  in 
society  its  enormity  grows  on  us.  Experts  in  these 
questions  assure  us  that  at  least  25  per  cent,  of  poverty 
is  due  to  it ; 37  per  cent,  of  pauperism ; 45  per  cent,  of 
child  destitution;  25  per  cent,  of  insanity;  55  per  cent, 
of  crimes,  and  19  per  cent,  of  divorce.  The  Rev.  Joseph 
Henry  Crooker,  in  his  new  book  entitled  “Shall  I 
Drink?”  brings  out  this  horrible  statement  as  a result 
of  careful  scientiflc  investigation,  that  55  per  cent,  of  the 
children  of  drinking  parents  die  in  childhood,  while  only 
23  per  cent,  of  the  children  of  parents  who  are  total  ab- 
stainers die. 


DEVIL’S  SLAUGHTER-HOUSE 

No  truer  line  was  ever  penned  than  the  saying  “The 
retail  grogshop  is  the  devil’s  slaughter-house.” 

I knew  personally  one  retail  saloon  in  a smaU  countrj' 
town.  I knew  and  loved  one  family  of  whom  the  hus- 
band and  father  patronized  that  small  retail  saloon. 
He  died  a drunkard.  His  son,  led  into  bad  company 


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through  the  father’s  drunkenness,  went  to  the  peniten- 
tiary. The  wife  and  mother  went  crazy  because  of  the 
trouble  and  shame,  and  the  daughter  was  ruined  by  a 
scoundrel  the  father  brought  home  with  him  from  the 
saloon. 

Behold  the  wholesale  slaughter  of  one  saloon  in  that 
family.  It  sent  the  four,  one  to  the  insane  asylum,  one 
to  the  penitentiary,  one  to  a house  of  prostitution,  and 
the  other  directly  to  a drunkard’s  grave.  And  yet  some 
people  cry  “fanatic”  when  we  would  shut  the  saloon 
that  works  this  slaughter. 

A BIG  PRICE  FOR  A DRINK 

Lombroso,  the  great  Italian  authority,  has  left  behind 
as  one  of  his  contributions  to  the  sum  of  human  knowl- 
edge his  mature  opinion  that  alcohol  is  one  of  the  chief 
curtailers  of  human  life.  Here  is  this  eminent  scien- 
tist’s deliberate  conclusion; 

“The  young  man  of  twenty  who  drinks  has  a prob- 
able life  of  fifteen  years  before  him,  the  abstainer  one  of 
forty-four  years.  ” 

What  a price  for  a drink. 


SCHOOLS  AND  PROHIBITION 

Ever  since  the  devil  helped  the  liquor  people  devise 
the  high  license  scheme  the  cry  has  been  that  we  must 
have  revenue  from  saloons  to  take  care  of  the  expense 
of  our  public  schools. 

Here  is  what  former  Governor  Hodges  says  about  the 
situation  in  Kansas  where  they  have  had  no  revenue 
from  saloons  for  thirty- two  years: 

“We  spent  $13,500,000  last  year  to  run  415,000 


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schools;  that  kept  15,000  teachers  busy  for  about  nine 
months.  The  salaries  of  the  men  teachers  have  increased 
from  $44  to  $80,50  a month  in  the  last  ten  years;  the 
salaries  of  the  women  have  doubled.  All  the  weak 
school  districts  have  State  aid,  and  we  have  no  schools 
which  have  less  than  a seven-month  term.  We  have  an 
endowment  fund  for  the  common  schools  of  $9,250,000.” 


LINCOLN  KEEPING  A SOLDIER  OUT  OF  A SALOON 

Dr.  John  Talmadge  Bergen  is  responsible  for  the 
story  that  some  years  ago,  at  a Lincoln  meeting  among 
some  old  soldiers  of  a Michigan  city,  one  of  the  veterans 
present  related  this  striking  incident:  “We  have  heard 
what  Lincoln  has  done  for  all  of  us ; I want  to  tell  what 
he  did  for  me.  I was  a private  in  one  of  the  Western 
regiments  that  arrived  first  in  Washington  after  the  call 
for  75,000.  We  were  marching  through  the  city  amid 
great  crowds  of  cheering  people,  and  then,  after  going 
into  camp,  were  given  leave  to  see  the  town.  Like  many 
other  of  our  boys,  the  saloon  or  tavern  was  the  first 
thing  we  hit.  With  my  comrade  I was  just  about  to  go 
into  the  door  of  one  of  these  places  when  a hand  was 
laid  upon  my  arm,  and  looking  up,  there  was  President 
Lincoln  from  his  great  height  above  me,  a mere  lad,  re- 
garding me  with  those  kindly  eyes  and  pleasant  smile. 
I almost  dropt  with  surprize  and  bashfulness,  but  he 
held  out  his  hand,  and  as  took  it  he  shook  hands  in 
strong  Western  fashion,  and  said,  ‘I  don’t  like  to  see 
our  uniform  going  into  these  places.’  That  was  all  he 
said.  He  turned  immediately  and  walked  away;  and 
we  passed  on.  We  would  not  have  gone  into  that  tavern 
for  all  the  wealth  of  Washington  City.  And  this  is  what 


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Abraham  Lincoln  did  then  and  there  for  me.  He  fixt 
me  so  that  whenever  I go  near  a saloon  and  in  any  way 
think  of  entering,  his  words  and  face  come  back  to  me. 
That  experience  has  been  a means  of  salvation  to  my 
life.  To-day  I hate  the  saloon,  and  have  hated  it  ever 
since  I heard  those  words  from  that  great  man.” 

SAVE  THE  BOYS 

No  one  can  overestimate  the  importance  of  the  boy- 
hood which  swarms  in  onr  big  towns  and  cities.  The 
modern  moving-picture  show  brings  every  living  hap- 
pening of  good  or  ill  within  reach  of  the  eyes  of  the 
humblest  boys  of  the  street.  This  adds  much  to  the  per- 
plexity of  the  boy  problem  in  our  day.  But  if  we  ban- 
ish the  saloon  we  have  gone  a long  way  on  the  road  to 
purifying  the  air  of  the  street  and  done  much  to  sim- 
plify the  great  problem  of  the  boys. 

These  boys  of  the  street  are  going  to  be  the  rulers  of 
to-morrow  and  the  day  after.  Do  not  forget  their  needs 
and  their  interests  when  you  come  to  vote  this  fall. 


PUTTING  ON  THE  RIGHT  LABEL 

Dr.  J.  Wilbur  Chapman,  the  famous  evangelist,  re- 
lates that  after  an  earnest  sermon  by  a distinguished 
minister,  dealing  plainly  and  pointedly  with  sin,  one  of 
the  church  officers  came  to  the  study  of  the  pastor  and 
exprest  himself  somewhat  as  follows:  “We  do  not  want 
you  to  talk  as  plainly  as  you  did  about  sin,  because  if 
our  boys  and  girls  hear  you  talking  so  much  about  sin 
they  will  more  easily  become  sinners.  Call  it  a mistake 
if  you  will,  but  do  not  speak  so  plainly  about  sin.”  The 
pastor  took  down  a small  bottle  of  strychnine,  marked 


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‘Poison,’  and  showed  it  to  his  visitor,  saying,  ‘I  see 
what  you  want  me  to  do.  You  want  me  to  change  the 
label.  Now,  suppose  I take  this  label  off  and  substitute 
another,  saying,  ‘Essence  of  Peppermint,’  do  you  not 
see  what  happens?  The  milder  you  make  your  label  the 
more  dangerous  you  make  your  poison.”  Jeroboam 
changed  the  label  and  the  more  easily  led  Israel  into  the 
sin  of  idolatry.  Sin  is  the  same  deadly  poison,  what- 
ever label  you  put  on  it,  but  the  milder  you  make  the 
label  the  more  likely  people  are  to  be  beguiled. 

Alcoholic  drinks  have  deceived  multitudes  because  of 
false  labels.  In  some  States  now  the  skull  and  cross- 
bones  with  the  word  “Poison”  go  on  the  bottle,  even 
from  the  drug  store.  Death’s  head  belongs  over  the 
“stuff”  until  it  has  found  its  final  grave. 


FARMERS  AND  THE  WOMEN 

The  National  Grange  has  unqualifiedly  and  emphati- 
cally endorsed  woman  suffrage  Among  the  State 
Granges  which  have  done  the  same  are  California,  Con- 
necticut, Delaware,  Illinois,  Indiana,  Kentucky,  Maine, 
Maryland,  Minnesota,  Michigan,  New  York,  New  Jer- 
sey, Oregon,  Ohio,  Pennsylvania,  Virginia,  Vermont 
and  Washington. 

That  is  a splendid  roll  of  honor.  May  the  glorious  list 
be  rapidly  extended ! Every  saloon  in  the  land  is  blight- 
ing woman ; therefore,  let  the  women  vote ! 

COURAGE,  BROTHER! 

Dr.  Joy,  editor  of  the  Christian  Advocate,  who  is 
making  that  great  journal  more  than  ever  a watchful 
power  in  the  temperance  cause,  has  this  editorial  utter- 


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ance  which  is  like  a drink  of  cold  water  on  a thirsty  day 
to  every  war-worn  soldier  for  Prohibition: 

‘'The  friends  of  great  causes  which  are  disappoint- 
ingly slow  in  their  apparent  rate  of  progress  may  pluck 
up  courage  by  pondering  the  suddenness  with  which  the 
idea  of  national  independence  ripened  in  the  American 
colonies.  Thomas  Jelferson  wrote:  ‘Before  the  19th 
of  April,  1775,  I never  heard  a whisper  of  a disposition 
to  separate  from  the  mother  country,’  and  in  March  of 
that  year  Benjamin  Franklin  said:  ‘No  American, 
drunk  or  sober,  thinks  of  such  a thing  as  independence.’ 
Yet  in  less  than  two  years  American  independence  had 
been  declared,  and  within  ten  it  was  one  of  the  facts  of 
history.” 


GIVE  THE  HOME  A CHANCE 

In  one  of  his  sermons  during  a recent  campaign,  that 
redoubtable  warrior,  Billy  Sunday,  took  a fall  out  of  the 
saloon  as  an  enemy  of  the  home.  He  said:  “The  nor- 
mal way  to  get  rid  of  drunkards  is  to  stop  raising  drunk- 
ards. I don’t  know  what  you’ll  do  in  Pennsylvania,  for 
your  Legislature  looks  as  if  it  was  soaked  and  pickled  in 
alcohol.  If  you  men  haven’t  decency  enough  to  enact 
laws  to  protect  the  homes,  then  give  the  women  a chance 
to  vote,  and  they’ll  do  it.  If  I remember  rightly,  we  had 
a war  in  this  country  once  because  of  taxation  without 
representation. 

“Nine-tenths  of  the  opposition  to  woman  suffrage 
crawls  and  wriggles  out  of  the  breweries  and  distilleries. 
They  know  that  when  the  women  go  to  the  polls  and 
drop  a ballot,  it  will  be  the  doom  of  the  grogshop.  It 
makes  me  sick  to  see  some  weasel-eyed,  drunken,  whisky- 


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soaked  degenerate  depositing  a ballot  and  keeping  clean 
women  away.  The  nation  that  refuses  to  grant  the  re- 
quests and  calls  of  women  to  protect  the  homes  from 
the  forces  that  are  eating  out  their  vitals  is  doomed, 
whether  it  is  this  or  any  other  nation.” 

The  saloon  is  the  deadliest  enemy  of  the  American 
home. 

Kill  the  saloon  and  give  the  home  a real  chance  to 
show  what  it  can  do ! 

A PARALYZER  NOT  A “BRACER” 

The  old  idea,  still  clung  to  by  many  victims  of  drink, 
was  that  a moderate  amount  of  alcohol  made  a whole- 
some stimulant,  and  woidd  build  up  overtired  nerves 
and  rejuvenate  a man’s  physicial  and  mental  powers. 
But  the  best  science  of  to-day  repudiates  that  idea  com- 
pletely. The  old  idea  was  that  a drink  of  liquor  in  the 
morning  was  a “bracer”  for  the  burdens  of  the  day, 
but  the  best  medical  men  tell  us  now  that  there  is  no 
truth  in  this.  It  is  not  really  a “bracer”  at  all.  It  is 
not  a stimulant  except  for  a moment ; it  is  not  a neces- 
sary medicine  and,  indeed,  the  science  of  to-day  assures 
us  that  men  have  been  and  are  deceived  about  alcohol 
along  these  lines.  As  a recent  writer  puts  it:  “Even 
in  most  moderate  quantities,  alcohol  paralyzes  all  the 
faculties  of  body,  mind  and  soul.” 

A BIGGER  FOOL  THAN  A DOG 

A little  skye-terrier  dog  had  been  taught  to  take 
a paper  bag  in  his  mouth  and  go  to  the  restaurant  after 
his  dinner.  He  would  go  to  the  door  and  scratch  outside 
until  he  was  admitted.  Then  he  would  trot  downstairs. 


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deposit  the  bag  on  the  floor,  wait  patiently  until  some 
meat  or  a bone  was  placed  in  it,  and  return  with  it  to 
his  master.  One  day,  in  order  to  fool  the  dog,  the  res- 
taurant-keeper put  raw  apple  peelings  in  the  bag  in- 
stead of  meat  and  twisted  up  the  top  as  usual.  The 
terrier  did  not  notice  the  trick  until  he  had  reached  the 
outside  door,  when  he  suddenly  dropt  the  bag  on  the 
floor,  tore  it  open,  and  found  out  that  he  had  been 
fooled.  He  then  could  not  be  induced  to  touch  it  until 
some  meat  had  been  placed  in  the  bag  in  plain  sight; 
then  he  took  up  his  dinner  and  trotted  off. 

How  much  wiser  that  dog  than  the  drunkard  who  al- 
lows himself  to  he  fooled  over  and  over  by  the  lying 
promises  of  strong  drink ! 


THE  DRY  DIAMOND 


In  Billy  Sunday’s  baseball  days,  not  so  very  long  ago, 
the  baseball  field  was  one  of  the  wettest  spots  in  the 
country,  but  the  baseball  diamond  has  surely  gone  dry. 

Hugh  S.  Fullerton,  the  Chicago  sporting  editor,  in  a 
contribution  to  Farm  and  Fireside,  has  shown  why  the 
non-drinking  player  is  now  desired  in  preference  to 
even  one  who  drinks  very  little.  His  figures,  based  on 
eleven  years  of  observation,  show  that  the  temperate 
players  are  those  who  lead  in  pitching,  hitting,  fielding 
and  base  running.  Conspicuous  examples  are  Ty  Cobb, 
Christy  Mathewson  and  Eddie  Collins.  In  the  last  five 
years,  in  the  big  leagues,  the  leaders  have  all  been  men 
noted  for  their  sobriety. 

Mr.  Fullerton  kept  tab  of  the  records  and  batting 
averages  of  thirty-two  moderate  drinkers  and  twenty- 
four  players  who  did  not  drink.  After  eleven  years  only 


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two  of  the  original  thirty-two  drinking  players  are  on 
the  diamond,  while  eight  of  the  twenty-four  non-drink- 
ers are  still  playing.  Furthermore,  only  five  of  the 
drinkers  are  prosperous  as  opposed  to  fourteen  of  the 
non-drinkers.  Six  of  the  beer  contingent  are  down  and 
out,  eight  are  dead  and  one  is  missing — but  only  three 
of  the  non-drinkers  are  either  dead  or  ruined.  The  non- 
drinkers have  won  more  games  and  pitched  more 
games,  stolen  more  bases  and  kept  up  a better  batting 
average,  altho  at  the  beginning  of  the  eleven  years  the 
drinkers  surpassed  them. 


THE  PASSING  OF  THE  JOY-RIDER 

One  of  the  pleasing  side  features  of  Prohibition  in  the 
many  new  States  that  went  dry  with  the  opening  of 
1916  is  the  passing  of  the  joy-rider  and  the  drunken 
chauffeur.  As  Prohibition  comes  in  the  drunken  and 
dangerous  joy-rider  goes  out.  In  Portland,  Ore.,  one  of 
the  big  coast  cities  that  has  recently  gone  dry,  the  po- 
lice report  that  traffic  accidents  have  well-nigh  ceased 
and  that  the  night-rider  and  the  joy-rider  have  disap- 
peared. In  February  there  was  only  one  arrest  for 
drunken  driving  of  an  automobile,  while  the  last  month 
the  saloons  were  open  there  were  thirteen,  and  two  citi- 
zens were  killed  by  them.  Who  is  so  blind  as  not  to  see 
the  benefit  of  such  a change  in  a city? 

PROHIBITION  ON  THE  DIAMOND 

Ty  Cobb  was  asked  by  a friend  last  summer  to  take  a 
drink  with  him,  but  replied,  “No,  I don’t  use  it.  It  dims 
my  batting  eye,  and  you  know  they  prest  me  hard  last 
•season  to  keep  out  ahead.” 


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Hugh  Jennings,  leader  of  the  Detroit  Tigers,  wrote 
for  the  sporting  page  of  a daily  paper  the  following: 
“There  is  a mistaken  notion  in  the  minds  of  some  peo- 
ple that  a manager  does  not  care  what  his  players  do  off 
the  diamond,  so  they  give  a good  account  of  themselves 
in  the  game.  That  is  nonsense.  A manager  can  go  to 
bed  with  the  chickens  and  tell  next  morning  which  of 
his  players  were  out  late  the  night  before.  The  team 
that  has  a few  ‘lushers’  on  its  roster  seldom  gets  a high 
place  in  the  race.” 

A Philadelphia  newspaper  man  says  of  Connie  Mack 
and  his  famous  “$100,000  infield:”  “Meinnis  is  a' tee- 
totaler. Collins  never  touches  Liquor.  Barry  is  a total 
abstainer.  Baker  has  become  ‘Home-Run’  Baker  with 
out  ever  taking  a drink.  Stay — Connie  Mack,  himself, 
the  discoverer  and  trainer  of  the  ‘$100,000  infield’  uses 
no  intoxicants  whatever.  Baseball  is  more  than  a game. 
It  is  a highly  specialized  and  heavily  capitalized  busi- 
ness. It  demands  above  all  things  efficiency.  And  where 
the  wise  Mr.  Mack  wants  flawless  work,  where  he  must 
have  absolute  dependability  and  keen-witted  intelligence, 
he  places  his  reliance  upon  men  who  keep  their  blood 
cool  and  their  heads  clear.” 

So  it  is  that  sport  as  well  as  business  swells  the  tides 
that  sweep  toward  Prohibition. 


PROHIBITION  AND  HOME  MISSIONS 

Many  devout  church  people  who  are  deeply  inter- 
ested in  missionary  work  are  slow  to  see  the  inseparable 
connection  between  Prohibition  of  the  saloon  and  all 
phases  of  Christian  mission  activity.  The  Spohesman- 
Review,  of  Spokane,  Wash.,  prints  an  article  from 


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Charles  West,  the  agency  farmer  on  the  Cceur  d’Alene 
Indian  reservation,  which  illustrates  this  fact.  Mr. 
West  says : “Not  a single  Indian  has  been  in  the  agency 
jail  since  that  date,  altho  formerly  hardly  a day 
passed  that  the  policeman  detailed  as  jailer  did  not  ar- 
rest from  two  to  six  Indians.  Prior  to  the  closing  of 
the  saloons  in  Tekoa,  the  agency  farmer  could  with  diffi- 
culty get  a hearing  among  the  younger  Indians,  altho 
he  was  backed  by  the  chief  and  prominent  members  of 
the  tribe.  Since  the  dry  law  went  into  effect  he  has 
organized  one  farmers’  club  and  resuscitated  the  one  he 
had,  which  was  scarcely  more  than  a club  on  paper,  and 
both  are  well  attended.  Under  the  old  regime,  if  the 
farmer  wished  to  give  advice  relative  to  agriculture,  he 
must  first  corner  his  Indian  and  compel  him  to  listen. 
Indeed,  he  gave  most  of  his  farming  instructions  to  the 
prisoners  in  the  agency  jail.  Now  he  has  more  calls  for 
individual  instruction  than  time  allows  him  to  answer. 
None  are  quicker  to  appreciate  the  benefits  accruing 
from  the  absence  of  bootleggers  than  the  young  Indians 
themselves.  A prominent  Indian,  who  knows  his  peo- 
ple well,  remarked  at  the  last  meeting  of  the  farmers’ 
club : Tf  the  bootleggers  can  be  kept  away  till  the  leases 
now  in  force  expire,  every  able-bodied  Indian  on  the 
reservation  will  farm  his  own  land.’  Their  ambition 
has  increased  as  they  see  hopes  of  a dry  reservation. 
Under  the  guidance  of  their  agent,  M.  D.  Colgrove,  they 
have  organized  a fair  association  with  a full  quota  of 
officers.  A deal  has  been  made  with  the  village  of  Plum- 
mer whereby  Plummer  is  to  furnish  the  buildings  and 
groimd  and  the  Indians  are  to  make  the  fair.  Nearly 
$1,000  has  already  been  subscribed  to  carry  out  this 
agreement.” 


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It  is  easy  to  see  that  in  this  case  the  banishment  of 
liquor  was  worth  more  than  a large  increase  in  mission- 
ary funds  and  service  for  the  moral  and  religious  im- 
provement of  these  Indians. 


A LIQUOR  DEALER’S  CONVERSION 

Up  in  Superior,  Wis.,  a saloon-keeper  is  reported  to 
have  slipt  into  one  of  the  campaign  meetings  where 
he  was  so  imprest  by  the  address  that  he  went  away 
saying  to  his  friends:  “Boys,  I can’t  stand  it — I can’t 
stand  it!  It’s  all  true.  I’ve  got  a little  fellow  of  my 
own,  and  so  help  me  God,  I am  going  to  quit  the  busi- 
ness, and  I will  vote  dry  Tuesday.  I will  vote  dry.  I 
am  done — done  with  it  all.  I can’t  stand  it  any 
longer.  ’ ’ 

It  is  a wonder  that  any  man  with  children  of  his 
own  can  ever  stand  it  to  engage  in  the  miserable  death- 
dealing business. 


WE  ARE  STEADILY  KNOCKING 

We  aU  have  our  blue  days  in  working  for  reform. 
There  are  days  when  things  look  discouraging.  There 
are  branches  which  grow  nearer  the  ground  as  the 
great  tree  goes  upward.  There  are  eddies  which  ap- 
parently turn  the  current  the  other  way.  But  if  you  will 
paste  these  facts  on  a card  over  your  mantel  and  look 
at  it  in  such  an  hour,  you  will  be  able  to  thank  God  and 
take  courage. 

The  sale  of  spirituous  liquors  for  the  year  ending 
June  30,  1915,  was  14,983,323  gallons  less  than  for  the 
year  ending  June  30,  1914. 

The  sale  of  fermented  liquors  (beer,  etc.)  was  6,358,- 


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774  barrels  less  during  the  year  ending  June  30,  1915, 
than  in  the  year  ending  June  30,  1914. 

The  revenue  from  spirit  and  allied  taxes  was  $14,- 
478,477.94  smaller  for  the  fiscal  year  1915  than  for  the 
fiscal  year  1914.  There  was  an  increase  in  the  revenue 
taxes  on  beer  of  $12,247,434.27,  due  to  the  addition  of 
50  cents  per  barrel  to  the  tax  of  1915.  But  for  this 
increase  in  the  tax,  the  revenue  from  this  source  would 
show  a decrease  of  $6,358,743.50. 

The  number  of  retail  liquor  dealers  decreased  by  12,- 
295 ; the  number  of  wholesale  liquor  dealers  decreased 
by  672 ; the  number  of  wholesale  dealers  in  malt  liquors 
decreased  by  1,233,  and  the  decrease  in  the  number  of  re- 
tail dealers  in  malt  liquors  will  bring  a total  decrease 
of  nearly  17,000  liquor  dealers  during  the  year. 

Clarence  True  Wilson  well  says: 

“The  South  has  long  been  considered  the  home  of 
Prohibition,  and  there  is  no  doubt  that  the  policy  has 
won  that  entire  section  of  the  country,  but  there  is  at 
least  a great  deal  of  ground  for  saying  that  the  West 
is  now  more  enthusiastic  in  favor  of  Prohibition  than 
the  South.  Particularly  is  this  true  of  the  Northwest. 
Business  men,  professional  men  and  politicians  alike  do 
not  hesitate  to  declare  their  conviction  that  the  system 
of  licensing  the  liquor  trade  does  not  pay.  It  is  a safe 
prophecy  that  the  entire  West  will  be  dry  within  the 
next  few  years.” 

THE  SOUTH  IS  GOING  DRY 

The  finest  song  or  poem  written  lately  on  The  March 
of  Prohibition  is  this  poem,  read  by  Dr.  J.  E.  Wray,  pas- 
tor of  the  Lakeland  Methodist  Church,  at  the  session  of 


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the  Florida  Conference,  on  the  reading  of  the  temper- 
ance report: 

I don’t  know  who  wrote  it,  but  it  is  a worthy  piece 
of  work,  and  tho  it  has  been  widely  printed,  I am  sure 
all  my  readers  will  be  glad  to  see  this  one  stanza  of  it 
printed  here : 

“Lay  the  jest  about  the  julep  in  the  camphor  balls  at 
last. 

For  the  miracle  has  happened,  and  the  olden  days  are 
past. 

That  which  ‘made  Milwaukee  famous’  does  not  foam  in 
Tennessee, 

And  the  lid  in  old  Missouri  is  as  tight-locked  as  can  be ; 
And  the  ‘comic-paper  colonel’  and  his  cronies  may  well 
sigh. 

For  the  mint  is  waving  gayly,  and  old  Florida’s  going 
dry.” 

Thank  God!  old  Florida’s  going  dry. 


HUNGER  AND  THE  SALOON 

A successful  worker  among  the  unfortunate  in  one  of 
our  great  Eastern  cities  recently  said: 

“If  I want  to  convert  a man  to  a belief  in  Prohibi- 
tion I am  not  sure  that  I would  take  him  to  a temper- 
ance lecture,  or  present  him  with  a treatise  on  the  evils 
of  the  alcohol  habit,  commendable  as  are  these  methods, 
but  I would  invite  him  to  go  with  me  on  some  bitterly 
cold  night,  when  the  thermometer  registered  10  or 
15  degrees  below  zero,  down  to  one  of  the  city’s  muni- 
cipal lodging-houses,  to  see  the  long  line  of  wretched 
homeless,  foodless  creatures,  waiting  for  admittance.” 
Thus  spoke  one  who  is  deeply  interested  in  the  question 


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of  unemployment.  To  be  sure,  not  all  of  the  men  who 
make  up  these  unhappy  processions  are  devotees  of  John 
Barleycorn,  but  by  far  the  larger  proportion  would 
confess  that  drink  had  much  to  do  with  their  downfall. 
Social  service  workers  in  New  York  city  one  winter 
questioned  the  men  who  came  to  these  places  for  shelter 
and  help  as  to  the  cause  of  their  unfortunate  condition, 
and  it  is  said  that  out  of  1,482  men  interviewed,  1,292, 
or  90  per  cent.,  admitted  that  they  were  addicted  to  the 
liquor  habit,  and  more  than  one-half  of  these  contest  to 
being  excessive  drinkers. 

Every  one  of  the  new  Prohibition  cities  tells  the  same 
story  of  the  thinning  and  disappearing  army  of  vagrants 
under  the  new  regime  of  sobriety — Hurry  National  Pro- 
hibition. 


THE  NEW  LIQUOR  CRY 

The  new  appeal  of  the  liquor  gang,  long  anticipated 
by  the  temperance  leaders,  is  now  beginning  to  resound : 
“Pay  us  for  our  losses  through  Prohibition.” 

The  first  appeal  is  from  the  editorial  brain  of  a dis- 
credited Missourian  who  has  been  proven  a libeler  and 
slanderer  of  temperance  leaders.  The  editor  of  the 
Central  Christian  Advocate  comments  on  his  appeal: 
“As  to  the  merits  of  the  argument,  there  are  none. 
There  can  not  be  an  argument,  no  matter  how  flimsy. 
We  all  know  what  the  saloon  is.  That  settles  it.  The 
courts  themselves  settled  that.  And  with  finality.  And 
the  awakened  conscience  of  the  land  has  long  since  ap- 
proved the  verdict  of  the  courts.  And  the  whisky  trade 
knows  it.  It  will  not  be  said  to  be  a part  of  any  one’s 
liberty  as  recognized  by  the  supreme  law  of  that  land 


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that  he  shall  be  allowed  to  introduce  into  commerce 
among  the  States  any  element  that  will  be  confessedly 
injurious  to  public  morals,  is  the  language  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  United  States,  speaking  on  this 
issue.  The  right  to  sell  intoxicating  liquors  is  not  a 
natural  right,  or  a property  or  personal  right,  says  an- 
other verdict.  The  natural  relation  of  the  saloon  to 
society  is  that  of  a nuisance.  Society  can,  and  society 
should,  abate  the  nuisance.  The  saloon  is  contrary  to 
the  public  welfare.  The  people  who  embark  in  the  busi- 
ness know  all  that  before  they  buy  their  fixtures  and 
their  kegs  and  cases  of  the  toxic  (poisoned)  drinks. 
They  gamble  with  the  awakening  will  of  the  people. 
How  long  will  the  people  tolerate  us  ? That  is  the  only 
question.  The  case  has  no  legal  standing.  Certainly  it 
has  no  moral  standing.  In  fact,  it  has  no  standing  of 
any  kind.  It  is  flat  on  its  back.  No  one  will  be  deceived 
by  anybody  on  this  point.  ’ ’ 


THE  PASSING  OF  THE  “OWL”  CAR 

What  might  be  appropriately  called  the  by-products 
of  Prohibition  are  very  interesting  themes  for  reflec- 
tion. In  Seattle,  for  instance,  our  largest  dry  city,  the 
“owl”  car  will  probably  soon  be  only  a memory. 

Some  “owl”  cars  have  been  dropt  entirely,  while 
others  will  go  earlier  than  in  the  past.  Officials  of  the 
Seattle  Traction  Company  stated  recently  that  “since 
the  dry  law  went  into  effect  the  patronage  of  late  out- 
going ears  had  dropt  off  30  to  40  per  cent.,  which  neces- 
sitated the  cutting  down  of  late  car  service.” 

Evidently  numbers  of  suburban  residents  have  con- 
cluded that  as  business  in  general  closes  at  six  o’clock 


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p.  M.  and  there  are  no  longer  any  saloons  requiring  their 
presence,  there  is  no  real  need  of  their  remaining  in 
town  until  the  “wee  sma’  hours”  of  the  morning.  Pos- 
sibly they  now  enjoy  the  novel  sensation  of  an  evening 
at  home  with  their  families.  To  some  it  must  be  a de- 
cidedly new  experience,  and,  let  us  hope,  a happy  one. 


UFE  WORTH  LIVING  UNDER  PROHIBITION 

One  of  the  most  interesting  wayside  results  of  Prohi- 
bition in  the  new  dry  States  is  the  great  reduction  in  the 
number  of  suicides.  In  the  first  year  of  Prohibition  in 
Birmingham,  Ala.,  there  was  a reduction  of  twenty-one, 
and  in  the  first  three  months  of  Prohibition  in  Denver, 
which  had  had  a high  record  of  such  deaths,  there  was 
not  a single  case. 

Evidently  life  becomes  more  worth  living  under  Prohi- 
bition. 


POOR  OLD  MISSOURI 

I saw  the  story  the  other  day  of  a drinking,  shiftless 
farmer  in  Idaho  who  was  so  disgusted  at  not  being  able 
to  get  his  regular  booze  under  Idaho  Prohibition  that 
he  boarded  the  train,  declaring  he  would  go  back  to 
‘•‘God’s  country”  where  a man  could  drink  what  he 
wanted  to.  Early  the  next  morning  he  got  off  at  Green 
River,  Wyoming,  to  get  a bottle  of  whiskjq  but  it  was 
Sunday,  and  “nothing  doing.”  AU  day  long  he  crossed 
Colorado  and  Kansas,  dry  as  the  desert  of  Sahara,  and 
not  imtil  he  reached  Missouri  was  any  liquor  refresh- 
ment possible. 

But  Missouri  will  not  be  willing  always  to  be  the  goat. 
Some  of  these  days  the  new  era  will  dawn  there. 


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FOR  A YOUNG  MAN’S  MANTEL 

Here  are  some  reflections  that  every  young  man  should 
keep  before  him: 

Young  man,  would  you  excel  in  athletics? 

Alcohol  weakens  the  body. 

Would  you  keep  your  mental  powers  unimpaired? 

Alcohol  steals  the  brain  power. 

Would  you  have  pure  blood? 

Alcohol  injures  the  blood. 

Would  you  have  steady  nerves  ? 

Alcohol  paralyzes  the  nerves. 

Would  you  have  a sound  heart? 

Alcohol  wears  out  the  heart. 

Would  you  have  powerful  muscles? 

Alcohol  makes  flabby  muscles. 

Would  you  ward  off  disease  ? 

Alcohol  weakens  the  power  of  resistance. 

Would  you  have  long  life? 

Alcohol  snaps  the  thread  of  life. 


GERMAN  EMPEROR  WARNING  HIS  SOLDIERS 
AGAINST  BEER 

The  German  Emperor  has  had  a very  impressive  pam- 
phlet, prepared  by  German  physicians,  entitled,  ‘‘Alco- 
hol and  the  Power  of  Resistance,”  spread  among  his 
soldiers  throughout  the  entire  army.  In  this  warning  by 
Germans  for  Germans  we  find  this  paragraph : 

“There  is  no  justification  for  calling  beer  ‘liquid 
bread’ ; a glass  of  heavy  beer  costing  twenty-five  pfennigs 
has  no  more  nourishment  than  a piece  of  cheese  costing 
one  pfennig.  Almost  all  excesses  and  disturbances  in 


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the  army  are  traced  to  drink.  . . . It  is  mostly  beer 
that  causes  the  mischief.  Beer  is  not  the  harmless  drink 
it  is  supposed  to  be.” 


NOT  A GOOD  PLAYFELLOW 

No  scientists  are  giving  the  drink  a black  eye  with 
more  promptness  and  despatch  these  days  than  the  Ger- 
man doctors.  Prof.  E.  Kraepelin  says:  “Alcohol  has 
seemed  to  us  a nice  plaything  or  even  an  amiable  friend. 
To-day,  however,  we  know  that  the  jolly  comrade,  for 
the  price  of  one  hour  of  exhilaration,  cheats  us  out  of 
our  self-respect,  that  it  brings  to  ruin  every  being  and 
every  nation  that  yields  to  it.  ’ ’ 

The  whole  world  is  rapidly  finding  out  that  the  drink 
never  plays  fair. 


BEER  AND  STUPIDITY 

Dr.  Edwin  F.  Bowers,  in  a recent  article  in  the  Ameri- 
can Magazine,  on  beer,  says:  “The  most  sinister  thing 
about  beer  is  its  apparent  harmlessness.  Whisky,  wine, 
gin,  brandy  and  other  so-called  ‘hard  drinks’  long  hid 
behind  the  Biblical  bulwark,  ‘.  . . for  the  stomach’s 
sake.’  At  last  science  and  common  sense  combined  to 
prove  that  they  have  no  peculiar  medicinal  value,  and 
practically  no  food  value.  Then  beer  picked  up  the 
fallen  banner.  The  ‘food  values’  of  beer  and  ale  have 
been  proclaimed  so  widely  and  entertainingly  that  the 
average  person  fatuously  believes  in  them.  Besides,  beer 
is  supposedly  the  beverage  of  that  truly  neutral  country 
lying  between  sobriety  and  inebriety.  It  is  the  cup  of 
compromise.  ‘ I can  drink  beer  all  night  without  feeling 
it,’  is  a common  enough  remark. 


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“But  CAN  you? 

“Modern  scientific  research  has  shown  that,  contrary 
to  general  belief,  beer  is  proportionately  much  more 
noxious  than  are  wines  or  liquors.  The  Bremen  Anti- 
Alcohol  Congress,  a conclave  of  many  of  the  most  fa- 
mous physicians  in  Europe,  concluded  that,  while  liquor 
makes  a man  brutal  and  dulls  his  judgment,  an  adequate 
amount  of  beer  makes  him  slow-witted  and  abolishes 
judgment.  While  wine  or  brandy,  in  sufficient  quan- 
tity, makes  a man  crazy,  beer  tends  to  make  him  stupid.  ’ ’ 

ONE  BY  ONE 

All  the  truly  great  and  good  men  of  our  day,  if  they 
live  long  enough,  come  over  on  the  side  of  Prohibition. 

It  took  President  Eliot  of  Harvard  a long  time,  but 
he  arrived,  and  now  comes  that  truly  great  soul.  Dr. 
Lyman  Abbott,  into  the  ranks. 

In  the  Outlook  of  recent  date.  Dr.  Abbott  answers  in 
“An  Open  Letter”  a communication  from  the  secretary 
of  the  “Ohio  Temperance  League,”  asking  for  a letter 
that  could  be  used  against  Prohibition  in  Ohio. 

The  letter  could  not  have  been  a source  of  joy  to  the 
wets  who  sought  it.  Dr.  Abbott  having  previously  writ- 
ten to  another  party  that  he  was  “not  in  favor  of  State- 
wide Prohibition,  except  where  a State-wide  public  sen- 
timent for  Prohibition  already  exists,”  it  was  doubtless 
expected  that  the  Doctor  would  take  his  usual  stand 
against  Prohibition  and  in  favor  of  regulation.  But  he 
seems  to  have  experienced  a change  of  mind.  He  says: 
“In  common  with  most  Americans,  I have  believed  in 
the  regulation,  not  prohibition,  of  the  liquor  traffic.  But 
the  action  of  liquor  dealers  has  made  regulation  impos- 


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sible.  . . , The  great  majority  covertly  disregard  or 
openly  defy  all  attempt  in  the  community  to  impose 
special  regulations  upon  them.” 

He  then  specifies:  The  law  forbids  “sales  to  minors”; 
to  “habitual  drunkards”;  “sales  at  certain  hours”; 
“sales  on  Sundays”;  “sales  except  with  meals”;  “ex- 
cept by  hotels”;  but  all  these  restrictions  are  widely  dis- 
regarded, and  the  American  people  “are  coming  to  the 
conclusion,  tho  slowly,  that  the  American  saloon  is  not 
only  a local  nuisance,  but  a national  calamity,  and  are 
resolved  to  abolish  it ! ” 

Thank  God  for  Dr.  Abbott  in  the  Prohibition  ranks ! 


THE  FATHER’S  SIN  IN  THE  SON’S  EYES 

The  New  York  Christian  Advocate  has  this  strong 
paragraph:  “ ‘My  sin  looked  at  me  out  of  the  eyes  of 
my  son,’  were  the  words  which  fell  from  the  lips  of  a 
man  who  had  seen  his  son  for  the  first  time  under  the 
infiuence  of  liquor.  He  never  knew  the  full  tragedy  of 
his  over-indulgence  until  it  became  the  indulgence  of  the 
boy  whom  he  looked  upon  with  all  a father’s  pride  and 
love.  The  saddest  thing  about  the  tragedies  which  came 
to  affect  the  domestic  life  of  David  was  that  in  a sense 
they  were  reflections  of  his  own  wrongdoing.  Old  sins 
came  back  to  leer  upon  him  in  the  deeds  of  some  of  his 
children.  The  poison  which  had  been  taken  out  of  his 
own  blood  reappeared  in  the  untamed  and  fiery  energy 
of  certain  of  his  sons.  In  one  of  the  stories  of  a power- 
ful English  writer  a complacent  and  respected  citizen  is 
boasting  of  the  fact  that  he  has  been  able  to  survive  the 
sowing  of  wild  oats.  He  had  his  fling  as  a young  man, 
and  later  he  was  able  to  make  a place  for  himself  in  the 


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life  of  the  community.  While  he  is  speaking  his  son 
comes  in,  a son  who  will  carry  to  the  grave  the  weakness 
he  has  inherited  from  his  father.  That  half-imbecile 
son  is  the  answer  to  the  father’s  complacent  words.” 

No  wonder  that  many  men  who  have  been  spared  the 
reaping  of  the  wild  oats  crop  in  themselves  are  working 
to  shut  the  saloon  to  save  their  children. 

WHATEVER  THE  WEATHER 

James  Whitcomb  Riley,  the  Hoosier  poet,  hits  the  spot 
in  these  lines  that  every  worker  for  reform  will  find 
helpful  if  he  but  ponder  them  long  enough  to  catch  their 
spirit : 

“Whatever  the  weather  may  be,”  says  he — 
“Whatever  the  weather  may  be. 

It’s  the  songs  ye  sing,  an’  the  smiles  ye  wear, 

That’s  a makin’  the  sun  shine  everywhere; 

An’  the  world  of  gloom  is  a world  of  glee, 

Wid  the  bird  in  the  bush,  an’  the  bud  in  the  tree. 

An’  the  fruit  on  the  stim  o’  the  bough,”  says  he, 
“Whatever  the  weather  may  be,”  says  he — 
“Whatever  the  weather  may  be!” 

“Whatever  the  weather  may  be,”  says  he — 
“Whatever  the  weather  may  be, 

Ye  can  bring  the  spring,  wid  its  green  an’  gold. 

An’  the  grass  in  the  grove  where  the  snow  lies  cold ; 
An’  ye’ll  warm  yer  back,  wid  a smiling  face. 

As  ye  sit  at  yer  hearth,  like  an  owld  fireplace, 

An’  toast  the  toes  o’  yer  sowl,”  says  he — 

‘Whatever  the  weather  may  be,”  says  he — 
“Whatever  the  weather  may  be!” 


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THERE’S  POWER  IN  THE  WOMAN’S  BALLOT 

An  editor  in  Waukegan,  111.,  writing  of  the  recent 
local  option  election  in  that  city,  paints  this  picturesque 
description  of  the  day: 

“The  women  must  be  given  the  most  credit.  They  at 
least  rolled  up  a splendid  majority  among  their  number. 
There  were  old  women ; young  women ; mothers  with 
babes  in  their  arms ; women  who  left  the  washtub  where 
they  have  been  chained  through  drunkenness  of  a hus- 
band; women  who  have  seen  sons  go  down  to  a drunk- 
ard’s grave,  and  many  other  kinds  of  women,  all 
working  for  the  abolition  of  the  greatest  curse  to 
womankind — the  American  drinking  saloon.” 


THEY  HEARD  FROM  HIM 

Dr.  A.  S.  Abernethy,  of  Greensboro,  N.  C.,  received  a 
while  ago  a circular  letter  from  an  Ohio  distillery  making 
him  a special  offer  on  liquors.  The  doctor  did  not  reply, 
and  soon  received  a second  letter  expressing  wonder  that 
they  “had  not  heard  from  him,”  and  wished  to  know 
why.  To  this  the  doctor  replied : “You  say  that  you  can 
not  understand  why  you  did  not  hear  from  me.  Yes,  and 
I,  too,  am  surprized  that  you  have  not  heard  from  me. 
I have  used  your  rye  whisky  in  the  past,  and  I have  used 
the  red  rye  whisky  of  other  distillers  of  your  kind,  and 
I am  surprized  that  they  have  not  all  heard  from  me. 

“You  should  have  heard  from  me  when  I drew  a for- 
tune of  $30,000  out  of  the  banks  and  wasted  it  in  riotous 
living,  reveling  with  other  unfortunate  men  under  the 
demoniac  alchemy  and  spell  of  your  vile  decoction.  You 
should  have  heard  from  me  when  I threw  away  a repu- 


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tation  equal  to  that  of  any  young  man  in  America  for 
the  privilege  of  making  an  outcast  and  wreck  of  myself 
drinking  your  vile  whisky. 

“I  will  admit,  I have  been  remiss  in  not  letting  you 
hear  from  me  long  before  this  time,  I should  have  writ- 
ten you  with  a pen  made  from  the  plumage  plucked  from 
the  bird  of  paradise  that  I drove  from  my  contented  and 
happy  home;  I should  have  penned  you  in  my  heart’s 
blood  on  the  occasion  of  the  burial  of  my  gray-haired 
mother,  whose  heart  I broke  by  my  conduct  while  under 
the  awful  influence  of  your  poisonous  stuff.  I should  have 
kept  you  informed.  I should  have  ‘reported  progress.’ 
When  I woke  to  the  sad  realization  that  from  a man  car- 
rying degrees  and  titles  of  honor  from  the  greatest  uni- 
versities and  started  well  up  the  ladder  of  recognition 
as  the  author  of  more  than  nineteen  historical  works,  I 
had  fallen  into  mental,  moral,  physical  and  financial 
bankruptcy,  I should  have  called  on  you.  I should  have 
wended  my  way  into  your  richly  decorated  private  office 
in  Dayton,  the  walls  of  which  are  crimsoned  with  the 
blood  of  thousands  of  human  wrecks,  and  there  de- 
manded of  you  that  you  give  me  the  reward  of  my 
faithful  vassalage  to  your  destructive,  demoralizing, 
disease-making,  mind-wrecking  business. 

“But  if  I have  been  remiss  in  letting  you  hear  from 
me,  remember  that  you  will  hear  from  me  in  the  future. 
I am  now  a preacher  of  the  gospel,  and  I am  making  it 
my  business  to  let  not  only  you,  but  every  other  manu- 
facturer of  the  liquid  damnation,  know  that  I am  being 
heard  from.  You  made  your  appeal  to  me  as  man  to 
man,  and  it  is  because  you  are  not  a man  and  because 
your  infernal  business  unmans  men  that  I am  fighting 
it  to  the  bitter  end  with  all  the  reconsecrated  powers  left 


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in  the  former  man  that  your  demoralizing  dope  could 
not  destroy. 

“You  speak  of  talking  as  man  to  man.  Why,  you 
would  not  dare  stand  before  a man  and  insult  his  man- 
liness with  the  proposition  to  unsteady  his  nerves,  dis- 
order his  digestion,  disturb  his  heart  action,  muddle  his 
mind,  demoralize  his  demeanor,  abuse  his  activity  and 
cloud  his  conscience  with  the  use  of  your  material.  You 
urge  me  to  stop  and  consider;  and  it  is  because  I have 
stopt  and  considered  that  I am  eternally  and  ever- 
lastingly the  sworn  enemy  of  your  nefarious  business 
so  long  as  I shall  hereafter  be  permitted  to  live.  ’ ’ 


“GRIN  AND  SHAKE  AND  SAY  ‘HULLO’” 

Some  nameless  writer  has  given  a good  hint  to  us  in 
these  homely  lines.  If  we  follow  the  advice  we  will  add 
much  good  cheer  to  many  a fellow  pilgrim  who  is  carry- 
ing a load  too  heavy  for  his  shoulders : 

“W’en  you  see  a man  in  wo 
Walk  right  up  and  say  ‘Hullo!’ 

Say  ‘Hullo!’  and  ‘How  d’ye  do?’ 

‘How’s  the  world  a-using  you?’ 

Slap  the  fellow  on  his  back. 

Bring  your  ban’  down  with  a whack; 

Walk  right  up,  an’  don’t  go  slow. 

Grin  and  shake  an’  say  ‘Hullo!’ 

“Is  he  clothed  in  rags?  0,  sho! 

Walk  right  up  an’  say  ‘Hullo!’ 

Rags  is  but  a cotton  roll 
Just  for  wrappin’  up  a soul;< 


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An’  a soul  is  worth  a true, 

Hale  and  hearty  ‘How  d’ye  do?’ 

Don’t  wait  for  the  crowd  to  go; 

Walk  right  up  an’  say  ‘Hullo!’ 

“When  big  vessels  meet,  they  say. 

They  saloot  an’  sail  away. 

Jest  the  same  as  you  an’  me — 

Lonesome  ships  upon  a sea. 

Each  one  sailing  his  own  jog 
For  a port  beyond  the  fog. 

Let  yer  speakin’  trumpet  blow. 

Lift  yer  horn  an’  cry  ‘Hullo!’ 

“Say  ‘Hullo!’  an’  ‘How  d’ye  do?’ 
Other  folks  are  good  as  you. 

W’en  ye  leave  yer  house  of  clay. 
Wanderin’  in  the  Far-Away, 

W’en  you  travel  through  the  strange 
Country  t’other  side  the  range, 

Then  the  souls  you ’ve  cheered  will  know 
Who  ye  be,  and  say  ‘ Hullo ! ’ ” 


BEER  AND  THE  HOLE  IN  A DOUGHNUT 

Dr.  Wiley  some  time  ago  very  effectually  disposed  of 
the  status  of  salicylic  acid  and  preservatives,  and  even 
the  most  enthusiastic  exponents  of  “food  in  beer”  will 
hardly  urge  the  use  of  hop  resin  as  an  a*rtiele  of  diet. 

As  regards  the  recent  claims  that  lecithin,  or  “nerve 
fat,”  has  been  discovered  in  beer,  Dr.  Edwin  F.  Bowers 
says;  “This  is  interesting,  if  true.  If  it  has — despite 
all  the  painstaking  negative  analyses  of  many  genera- 


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tions  of  chemists — it  is  quite  safe  to  estimate  that  the 
total  amount  contained  in  four  carloads  of  beer  might 
approximate  the  quantity  concealed  about  the  person  of 
one  vigorous  fresh  egg.  "Which  vrould  give  it  a nutri- 
tional value  almost  as  high  as  that  of  the  hole  in  a 
doughnut. 

“This  leaves  us  a few  grains  of  proteid  and  a small 
amount  of  sugar  as  the  ‘food’  in  beer.  If  the  tissues  are 
supplied  with  a liberal  amount  of  water — altho  no  one 
claims  water  as  a food  per  se — life  can  be  sustained  for 
a very  considerable  time.  Dr.  Tanner  fasted  for  forty 
days.  Perhaps  some  beer-encouraged  expert  might  do 
even  better.  He  might  if  he  could  rid  the  beer  of  its 
4 or  5 per  cent,  alcohol  content — a content  that  in  the 
absence  of  other  food  to  attack  would  prey  upon  the 
tissues  like  a myriad  of  infinitesimal  teeth.  But  if  he 
did,  the  genial  draft  would  no  longer  be  beer.” 


GET  A TRANSFER 

There  is  a wonderful  power  in  good  eheer.  The  strong- 
est intellect  is  mightily  reinforced  by  carrying  an  atmos- 
phere of  good  cheer  and  kindliness.  Nothing  is  ever 
gained  by  giving  over  to  sullen  spirits  or  fretfulness. 

These  jingling  little  lines  will  do  us  all  good  if  we 
catch  their  spirit  of  hopefulness : 

If  you  are  on  a gloomy  line, 

Get  a transfer. 

If  you’re  inclined  to  fret  and  pine, 

Get  a transfer. 

Get  off  the  track  of  doubt  and  gloom ; 

Get  on  a sunshine  train;  there’s  room. 

Get  a transfer. 


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If  you  are  on  the  worry  train, 

Get  a transfer. 

You  must  not  stay  there  and  complain; 

Get  a transfer. 

The  cheerful  cars  are  passing  through, 

And  there’s  lots  of  room  for  you. 

Get  a transfer. 

If  you  are  on  the  grouchy  track. 

Get  a transfer. 

Just  take  a happy  special  back; 

Get  a transfer. 

Jump  on  the  train  and  pull  the  rope 

That  lands  you  soon  at  station  Hope. 

Get  a transfer. 

THE  BOOTLEGGER’S  WAIL 

“Never  in  the  wide  world  can  we  secure  a verdict  in 
our  favor  with  the  court-room  half-filled  with  women,” 
is  the  pitiful  wail  of  a scoundrel  caught  bootlegging  in 
one  of  the  new  Prohibition  States.  God  bless  the  good 
women  and  give  more  power  to  their  elbows  until  the 
saloon  shall  have  to  face  them  at  the  jury-box  and  the 
ballot-box.  Then  the  saloon  will  only  curse  and  gasp 
and  die! 


THE  SEMI-BARBAROUS  STATES 

That  scholarly  and  refined  organ  of  wet  culture  known 
as  the  Brewers’  Journal,  in  its  issue  of  March  1st,  says 
that  “Prohibition  is  possible  only  in  localities  where  the 
population  is  still  semi-barbarous,  steeped  in  prejudice, 
superstition  and  credulity.”  Now  the  people  of  Maine, 
Kansas,  Georgia,  Mississippi,  North  Carolina,  North 


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Dakota,  Oklahoma,  Tennessee,  West  Virginia,  Colorado, 
Arizona,  Washington,  Oregon,  Alabama,  Arkansas, 
Iowa,  Virginia,  Idaho  and  South  Carolina  can  un- 
derstand just  the  sort  of  people  they  are.  And 
the  prospect  is  good  that  another  large  group  of  States 
will  fall  from  grace  and  culture  in  the  Brewers’  Jour- 
nal’s eyes. 


THE  PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 

One  of  the  most  significant  things  I have  seen  for  a 
year  showing  the  trend  of  events  is  the  statement  of  the 
Boston  Transcript,  after  a thorough  investigation  by  a 
skilled  ODserver,  that  Prohibition  is  more  of  an  issue 
than  preparedness,  the  tariff,  or  the  foreign  policy  of 
President  Wilson’s  administration.  It  sums  up  the 
statement  by  saying:  “Wliile  just  now  each  State  is 
fighting  its  own  battles,  the  question  is  approaching  a 
national  issue.”  The  Transcript  is  the  able  and  aristo- 
cratic mouthpiece  of  the  inner  circle  of  the  Boston 
Brahmins. 


A GOVERNOR  WORTH  HAVING 

How  the  liquor  men  up  in  Michigan  must  adore  Gov- 
ernor Ferris ! Just  read  this  advice  sent  to  his  home 
town  in  a recent  election : ‘ ‘ Can  the  wets  point  to  one 
valuable  or  decent  thing  that  Mecosta  County  has  lost  by 
being  dry  ? In  my  hundreds  of  personal  interviews  with 
prisoners,  70  per  cent,  voluntarily  admit  excessive  use 
of  intoxicating  liquors.  A large  number  of  prisoners 
say,  ‘Drunkenness  led  to  my  downfall.’  What  wide- 
awake citizen  wishes  to  take  a chance  of  injuring  his 
neighbor  by  encouraging  the  maintenance  of  the  saloon  ? 


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Fellow  citizens,  when  and  where  has  the  saloon  founded 
a school,  a church,  or  any  other  institution  for  the  uplift 
of  humanity?  Where  is  the  man  or  woman  who  gives 
credit  to  the  saloon  for  his  motive,  for  his  inspiration  to 
render  splendid  service  to  his  family,  his  city  and  his 
State?  Vote  dry;  in  other  words,  vote  for  your  mother, 
your  wife,  your  children,  for  the  American  home. 
Safety  First.” 


CONGRESS  ASKED  TO  INTERFERE 

Nothing  is  sacred  to  the  liquor  traffic.  Bills  have  re- 
cently been  introduced  into  Congress  to  protect  the  clean 
L old  name  of  “Quaker”  from  the  silly  and  infamous  on- 
slaughts of  the  brewers  and  distillers  who  are  advertis- 
C ing  “Quaker”  beer  and  “Quaker”  whisky.  It  is,  of 
course,  not  astonishing  that  the  people  who  slander  the 
names  of  Lincoln  and  Washington  and  Franklin  and 
^ even  the  holy  name  of  Christ  to  advance  their  business 
should  seek  to  smirch  the  wholesome  name  of  the  Quaker. 


ONE  BY  ONE  THEY  SEE  THE  LIGHT 

The  two  papers  in  Georgia  which  above  all  others 
have  bitterly  fought  Prohibition  are  beginning  to  see  a 
new  light  in  the  sky.  This  striking  editorial  in  the 
Macon  Telegraph  puts  the  change  in  an  interesting  set- 
ting: “T/ie  Augusta  Chronicle  in  a lengthy  editorial 
has  come  out,  as  we  take  it,  flat-footed  for  Prohibition 
by  amendment  to  the  national  constitution.  While  the 
Telegraph  can  not  see  it  that  way  we  are  not  exactly  sur- 
prized. There  is  no  gainsaying  the  weight  of  the  present 
sentiment  against  the  sale  of  alcoholic  liquors  and  malted 
beverages.  The  Telegraph  has  no  issue  to  make  with 


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the  statement  that  National  Prohibition  will  surely  pro- 
hibit. That  goes  without  saying.  It  will  do  that.  But 
for  that  matter,  the  State  laws  are  beginning  to  do  it 
now.  The  main  thing — the  thing,  in  fact,  that  has  made 
such  legislation  possible — is  the  awakened  conscience  of 
the  individual  to  the  fact  that  he  doesn’t  want  it  for 
himself,  that  efficiency  demands  he  use  it  in  the  greatest 
moderation,  if  at  all,  that  self-respect  commands  him  to 
keep  his  mind  clear  and  his  body  functioning  smoothly. 
Alcohol  in  the  slightest  excess  permits  of  none  of  these. 
Men  are  letting  up  on  drinking  because  they  have  been 
educated  in  the  schools  as  children,  because  their  em- 
ployers have  drilled  it  into  them,  because  the  practise  of 
athletics,  even  among  the  middle-aged,  has  preached  an 
eloquent  message  against  indulgence,  to  the  effect  that 
he  is  the  best  who  drinks  not  at  all.  They  are  learning 
fast  that  as  much  pleasure  can  be  had  by  full-blooded 
men  without  John  Barleycorn  as  with  him.” 

WHISKY  AT  THE  WHEEL 

How  keenly  this  editorial  note  in  the  Kamos  City  Star 
searches  out  the  open  secret  of  a hundred  accidents  in 
American  towns  every  day  in  the  year:  “The  three 
young  men  who  rode  in  the  death-car  Saturday  night 
that  ran  into  the  crowd  of  young  people  at  Fifteenth 
and  Troost  Streets,  have  been  captured.  But  the  driver 
of  the  ear  still  is  at  liberty.  It  was  whisky  that  sat  at  the 
wheel  and  committed  the  murder.  It  was  whisky  that 
sent  the  car  on  its  mad  way  after  two  of  the  young  folks 
had  been  killed  and  others  injured.  Whisky  still  is  free 
and  unrestrained.  It  was  out  bright  and  early  this 
morning  looking  for  other  young  men  to  act  as  its  agents 
and  ride  with  it  on  another  death  mission.  ’ ’ 


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GROCERIES  OR  BEER,  WHICH? 

The  Minneapolis  Journal  is  responsible  for  the  state- 
ment that  the  Great  Northern  Railroad,  during  the  last 
wet  year  in  Itasca  County,  Minnesota,  shipped  in  seventy- 
nine  tons  of  beer  and  in  the  first  dry  year  no  beer  at  all, 
but  an  increase  of  seventy-nine  tons  of  groceries.  Since 
the  scientists  tell  us  that  you  have  to  drink  thirty-one 
and  a half  tons  of  beer  to  get  one  ton  of  food,  that  was 
some  change  for  one  station. 

ON  THE  RUN 

An  agent  for  a big  brewer  recently  said  to  a temper- 
ance friend:  “Frankly,  I think  there  are  two  things 
that  are  hurrying  National  Prohibition : the  great  new 
efficiency  basis  in  the  industrial  world — men  of  capital 
and  men  of  the  laboring  class  have  come  to  see  that 
John  Barleycorn  does  not  pay  in  dollars  and  cents;  and 
secondly,  the  enfranchisement  of  the  women  of  the 
United  States.  If  the  big  corporations  do  not  put  us 
out  of  business  before  long,  the  women’s  ballot  will,  dead 
sure.  ’ ’ 

Yes,  and  there  are  a score  of  other  things ; yes,  hun- 
dreds of  them.  Every  new  dry  city  and  town  is  adding 
to  the  explosion  of  all  the  old  lies  of  the  wets  about  the 
disaster  worked  by  Prohibition. 

Prohibition  is  making  good ! 


MAD  DOG  OF  CIVILIZATION 

This  happened  the  other  day  down  in  Nogales,  Ariz. 
A gang  of  Villa  rooters  looted  a licensed  saloon  and  one 
of  them,  half  drunk  with  licensed  whisky,  took  an  Amer- 
ican soldier  for  a target.  The  other  tipsy  Mexicans  did 


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likewise.  The  American  soldiers  replied  with  their 
rifles.  The  fight  was  on.  When  the  trouble  was  over 
and  a census  of  the  casualties  was  taken,  one  Amer- 
ican was  found  dead,  two  wounded,  and  forty  Mex- 
icans were  reported  dead.  The  Mexicans  licensed  the 
saloon.  This  is  what  they  got.  That  sort  of  thing  is 
what  alcohol  is  for,  and  alcohol  made  good.  The  Mexi- 
can liquor  men  thought  they  were  making  some  money 
out  of  it.  Maybe  they  did,  but  the  dead  and  wounded 
had  no  profit  in  it.  A mad  dog  could  not  have  done  one- 
twentieth  of  the  mischief  alcohol  did. 

A town  that  is  not  ready  to  license  mad  dogs  should  in 
all  logical  consistency  refuse  to  license  a saloon. 


CALIFORNIA  AND  THE  WATER  WAGON 

David  Starr  Jordan,  for  a generation  at  the  head  of 
the  great  Stanford  University,  in  prophesying  that  Cali- 
fornia will  vote  dry  in  November,  utters  some  remark- 
able testimony  in  regard  to  the  days  when  San  Francisco 
was  dry  in  contrast  with  the  wet  days  which  followed. 
When  asked : 

‘ ‘ How  will  Prohibition  be  received  in  San  Francisco  ? ’ ’ 
he  replied : 

“It  is  no  new  thing  there.  Our  metropolis  was  dry 
for  three  months  following  the  earthquake  and  no  crime 
or  disorder  of  any  kind  was  known.  About  the  only 
thing  we  had  to  watch  was  the  tendency  of  the  boys  to 
dig  into  the  ashes  of  the  jewelry  stores  and  pick  up 
melted  gold.  But  from  the  day  they  reopened  the  sa- 
loons, a murder  a night  for  three  months  showed  what 
makes  crime.  Saloon  closing  will  work  the  same  way 
again.” 


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THE  SALOON  BUILT  “ON  THE  SINS  OF  MEN  AND 
THE  TEARS  OF  WOMEN” 

A business  that  can  only  live  and  prosper  by  luring 
men  into  sin  and  wringing  tears  from  the  broken  hearts 
of  the  women  can  not  continue  permanently  in 
any  save  a devil’s  world.  As  the  editor  of  the  Toledo 
Blade  said  a while  ago  in  the  amendment  campaign  in 
Ohio:  “There  has  never  been,  nor  can  there  ever  be, 
any  sound  argument  in  favor  of  the  liquor  traffic.  Every 
consideration  of  morality  and  justice  and  decency  and 
efficiency,  of  individual  happiness  and  of  national  prog- 
ress, demands  the  destruction  of  the  constant  lure  and 
the  eternal  menace  of  the  saloon.  It  is  an  institution 
reared  on  the  sins  of  men  and  the  tears  of  women.  For 
a century  it  has  been  the  most  corrupt  and  corrupting 
influence  in  American  politics.  Its  sinister  hand  has 
molded  party  policies  and  meddled  in  governmental 
affairs.  It  has  fed  and  fattened  on  the  humble  and  the 
great.  And  it  is  coming  to  the  end  of  its  chapter.” 


A CLERICAL  LIQUOR  HERO 

The  editor  of  the  National  Liquor  Dealers’  Journal 
has  at  last  found  a preacher  whom  he  delights  to  honor. 
Tho  he  is  a minister  of  one  of  the  churches  of  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.,  he  is  reported  in  the  daily  papers  to  have  declared 
to  a company  of  other  preachers  that,  tho  a total  ab- 
stainer, he  does  not  believe  in  Prohibition,  but  proposes 
to  proceed  according  to  the  old  familiar  lines  of  “moral 
suasion.”  The  Liquor  Dealers’  Journal  waxes  eloquent 
over  this  “find”  and  says:  “Rev.  Mr. in  his  con- 

clusion is  strictly  in  line  with  that  good,  brilliant  and 


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bold  divine,  old  Dr.  Chalmers,  one  of  the  pioneers  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church.  Dr.  Chalmers  preached  the  gos- 
pel of  ‘reform  within’  as  the  real  and  lasting  step  to 
moral  and  social  betterment.  He  plainly  declared  in 
one  of  the  best  of  his  many  economic  essays  that  without 
[unless]  people  changed  their  dispositions  and  desires 
they  could  not  be  reformed  by  law  nor  by  force  of  any 
kind.  This  is  the  sound  gospel  of  permanent  reform.  ’ ’ 
The  Journal  knows  very  well  that  every  earnest  tem- 
perance minister  in  the  land  is  doing  this  very  work 
which  he  praises,  but  it  is  only  when  we  propose  to  turn 
off  the  liquor  faucet  to  make  our  “moral  suasion”  work 
effective,  that  the  liquor  gang  gets  scared.  These  fel- 
lows, like  the  Pittsburgh  preacher,  only  play  into  the 
hands  of  the  devil  for  notoriety’s  sake.  No  man  with 
sense  enough  to  get  through  a theological  school  these 
days  can  be  blind  to  the  meaning  of  the  praise  he  is 
receiving  from  the  liquor  papers. 


DRINK  THAT  GETS  THE  MAN 

The  little  brown  men  over  in  the  land  of  cherry  blos- 
some  are  a shrewd,  keen  lot  of  fellows,  and  they  are 
thinking  and  studying  much  these  days  as  to  what  their 
future  attitude  toward  liquor  shall  be.  They  put  it 
pretty  pat  in  these  lines : 

“At  the  punch  bowl’s  brink. 

Let  the  thirsty  think 
What  they  say  in  Japan ; 

‘First  the  man  takes  a drink. 

Then  the  drink  takes  a drink. 

Then  the  drink  takes  the  man!’  ” 


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CITIES,  TOO,  ARE  GOING  DRY 

There  are  204  cities  in  the  United  States  of  over  30,000 
population,  and  of  these  about  one-fifth,  or  one-fourth, 
are  now  under  Prohibition.  Of  the  smaller  towns  the 
ratio  runs  the  other  way,  as  more  than  three-fourths  of 
them  are  dry  and  less  than  one-fourth  wet.  Five  years 
ago  you  could  count  the  larger  class  of  cities  that  were 
dry  on  your  fingers,  but  they  are  coming  fast  to-day. 
The  present  year  will  add  many  more  to  the  growing 
list  and  white-haired  men  are  now  expecting  to  live  to 
see  the  day  when  from  Sandy  Hook  to  the  Golden  Gate 
not  a single  saloon  shall  remain  to  shame  American 
honor  or  tempt  American  citizenship. 


LINCOLN  THE  PROHIBITIONIST 

In  these  days,  when  the  brewers  are  spreading  their 
infamous  lies  about  Abraham  Lincoln,  it  is  well  to  keep 
often  before  the  minds  of  the  public  this  remarkable 
paragraph  uttered  by  the  great  emancipator : 

“And  when  the  victory  shall  be  complete,  when  there 
shall  be  neither  a slave  nor  a drunkard  on  the  earth,  how 
proud  the  title  of  that  land  which  may  truly  claim  to 
have  been  the  birthplace  and  cradle  of  both  these  revo- 
lutions, that  shall  have  ended  in  that  victory.” 


STOP  THE  BANKING  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE  SALOON 

I saw  printed  in  a newspaper  recently  a facsimile  of 
a cheek  issued  by  a manufacturing  establishment,  upon 
the  face  of  which  in  bold  type  were  printed  the  words : 
“Void  if  cashed  in  the  saloon.”  The  paper  printing  it 
declared  that  it  worked  well  and  urged  others  to  try  it. 
That  is  all  right.  We  should  urge  everything  that  will 


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break  a single  chain  that  holds  any  man  in  bondage  to 
the  saloon,  but  how  much  better  to  do  away  with  the 
saloon  bank  entirely.  That  old  war-horse,  Dr.  Theodore 
Cuyler,  used  to  call  saloons  “Banks  for  losing,  where 
every  depositor  gains  a loss.” 


NOVEL  DRINKING  ON  DECLINE 

Those  of  us  who  were  brought  up  on  Charles  Dickens’ 
novels  fifty  years  ago,  remember  how  on  every  other  page 
somebody  took  a drink,  and  sometimes  even  more  fre- 
quently. These  frequently  indulged  drinks  ran  all  the 
way  from  “a  pint  of  bitter”  to  pineapple  punch.  And 
all  this  occurs  in  fine  books  like  the  one  which  preserves 
for  us  that  amiable  and  great-hearted  saint,  kir.  Pick- 
wick. The  Detroit  News  calls  attention  to  the  wonderful 
change  which  has  come  over  English  novels  in  more  re- 
cent days:  “Only  a cursory  survey  of  current  English 
novels — and  of  one’s  friends,  too,  for  that  matter — 
reveals  the  fact  that  the  hard-drinking  man,  both  as  a 
character  in  fiction  and  as  a person  of  importance  and 
power  in  the  real  world,  is  passing.  That  this  is  so  was 
brought  home  vividly  by  a recently  published  article 
from  the  pen  of  Arnold  Bennett.  In  his  comment  on 
England’s  present  economical  situation  Mr.  Bennett 
describes  his  attempt  to  get  a glass  of  soda  and  milk  at 
a London  pubLie  house.  Even  we  in  America  know  that 
London’s  drink  traffic  is  now  in  the  grip  of  severe  official 
restrictions.  Bennett  saw  ‘near  Piccadilly  Circus  the 
entrance  to  a bar  and  determined  to  go  in.’  Of  course, 
he  never  got  in,  but  the  amusing  and  valuable  part  of 
the  experience  is  Bennett’s  confession  that  he  has  prob- 
ably been  in  a bar  not  more  than  a dozen  times  in  his 


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life,  and  so  far  as  lie  can  remember  has  never  bought  an 
alcoholic  drink  at  a bar.  Yet  the  man  speaking  is  one 
of  England’s  half  dozen  most  eminent  novelists — the 
greatest  of  them  all,  some  think.  And  if  one  runs  over  in 
his  mind  some  of  the  famous  Bennett  novels — ‘Old 
Wives’  Tales,’  the  Clayhanger  trilogy,  ‘Denry,  the 
Audacious,’  ‘Buried  Alive,’  ‘The  Price  of  Love’ — one 
can  not  recollect  a drinking  scene.  Bennett  writes  real- 
istic novels  of  English  life,  novels  filled  with  the  min- 
utiae of  the  life  of  the  people,  yet  rum  has  no  place  in 
his  detailed  examination  of  the  motives  of  his  characters ; 
it  simply  doesn’t  exist  for  Bennett.  And  Americans  in 
at  least  twenty-four  States  this  year  find  it  simply  doesn’t 
exist  for  them,  either.  How  uneasy  must  be  the  shades 
of  Omar  and  Tom  Moore!” 

HOW  TO  SHELLAC  YOUR  KIDNEYS 

A distinguished  physician.  Dr.  Edwin  P.  Bowers,  re- 
cently wrote  about  beer  as  follows:  “We  used  to  think 
that  we  got  all  the  ‘resin’  with  which  we  varnished  our 
kidney  cells  from  the  pitch  lining  of  the  beer  barrels. 
But  now  we  know  that  we  get  our  kidney  shellac  from 
the  hops  in  the  beer.  In  addition  to  their  deleterious 
effect  upon  the  kidneys,  these  secretions  act  powerfully 
and  disastrously  upon  the  nervous  system.  Now,  the 
hop  belongs  to  the  hemp  group,  and  is  closely  related  to 
Indian  hemp.  On  the  female  blossoms  of  Indian  hemp, 
as  on  the  female  blossoms  of  hops,  we  find  glands  hold- 
ing a narcotic,  sticky,  bitter-tasting  substance,  which  is 
the  active  element  of  hashish..  Hashish  is  used  largely 
by  the  various  Mohammedan  peoples  of  West  and  South 
Africa  and  in  the  Malay  Archipelago  for  narcotic  pur- 


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poses.  In  the  intermediary  stage — before  complete 
stupefaction  sets  in — these  hemp  habitues  become  dan- 
gerously violent,  even  to  running  amuck  with  a huge 
crooked-bladed  dagger,  stabbing  and  slashing,  until  they 
are  mercifully  killed  in  their  tracks.” 

THE  LOGIC  OF  A BROKEN  HEART 

Never  in  all  history  has  any  nefarious  gang  under- 
taken to  bribe  the  press  of  the  country  as  the  liquor 
dealers  are  seeking  to  do  now.  You  may  set  it  down  as 
certain  that  at  least  nine  out  of  every  ten  words  you  see 
in  your  paper  these  days  that  are  friendly  to  the  liquor 
traffic  in  any  way  have  been  paid  for  at  advertising  rates. 

But  not  all  the  newspapers,  big  or  little,  are  ready  to 
take  this  Judas  bribe.  One  of  the  Pennsylvania  editors, 
before  whom  this  bait  was  dangled  by  the  brewers,  made 
this  pathetic  and  heroic  reply:  “I  have  your  letter  of- 
fering 20,000  lines  of  beer  advertising,  to  be  used  in  the 
. . . from  January  1,  1916,  to  January  1,  1917.  This 
would  make,  approximately,  a quarter  page,  or  30  inches, 
each  week,  which,  at  30  cents  an  inch,  our  authorized 
rate,  would  amount  to  $9  a week,  or  $450  for  the  year. 

“This  looks  very  good  to  us  as  to  the  size  of  the  order 
and  the  revenue  it  would  bring,  but  as  I feel  that  some 
poor,  innocent  persons  would  have  to  pay  not  only  the 
$450  it  would  bring  me,  but  also  the  cost  of  the  beer  sold 
and  the  profit  on  it,  I am  not  warranted  in  accepting, 
much  as  I need  the  money. 

“My  home  has  been  broken  up  for  more  than  a year, 
due  to  the  fact  that  my  wife  has  been  placed  in  a hos- 
pital for  the  insane.  The  physician’s  diagnosis  of  her 
case  is  paranoia,  which,  the  medical  books  say,  is  caused 
by  a family  taint  of  drunkenness,  neurosia,  or  actual  in- 


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sanity.  As  there  has  been  nothing  like  the  latter  two  in 
the  family  history,  I am  led  to  believe  that  rum  is  the 
sole  cause  of  the  trouble,  and  now  I,  an  innocent  victim, 
must  pay  the  hospital  bills,  conduct  a wifeless  home 
and  raise  a motherless  daughter.  My  wife  did  not  drink, 
but  I am  told  that  her  father  and  her  grandfather  did. 

“I  am  not  a temperance  crank,  but  I could  tell  you 
more.  This  is  sufficient,  however,  to  satisfy  you  why  I 
do  not  care  to  do  anything  to  foster  an  appetite  for  beer 
or  whisky.  This  is  the  largest  advertising  proposition  I 
ever  had  presented  to  me,  but  it  is  not  the  only  one  I 
have  refused.  If  you  have  any  propositions,  large  or 
small,  to  advertise  legitimate  commodities  that  will 
serve  a useful  purpose  in  life,  I shall  be  glad  to  consider 
them.  ’ ’ 


NATIONAL  HEALTH 

The  Congregationalist  says : ‘ ‘ The  policy  of  Prohibi- 
tion has  failed  to  achieve  among  us  in  the  past  an  ade- 
quate success,  because  wherever  tried  it  has  been  only 
Prohibition  in  spots!  But  sanitation  in  spots — vaccina- 
tion, quarantine,  sewerage,  pure  water  supply  only  here 
and  there — such  an  arrangement  would  not  give  us  a 
satisfactory  improvement  in  public  health.  Nothing  will 
do  but  a policy  of  public  hygiene  that  is  nation-wide. 
Just  so  with  Prohibition,  a necessity  to  public  health, 
moral  and  physical.  The  liquor  power  can  only  be  struck 
at  its  vital  center  when  hit  by  a national  law.  That  blow 
given  and  then  scores  of  minor  evils,  caused  by  drink, 
that  can  not  otherwise  be  reached  will  disappear.” 

We  still  believe  that  health  in  spots  is  better  than 
universal  sickness,  but  agree  that  National  Prohibition 
is  the  ultimate  and,  please  God,  the  early  solution. 

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THE  STOCK  SHOW  AND  THE  WATER  WAGON 

The  stock  owners  of  Colorado  were  afraid  that  Prohi- 
bition would  prove  detrimental  to  their  big  annual  stock 
show,  but  the  first  one  under  the  dry  regime  was  a 
record-breaker  in  every  desirable  way.  The  Rocky 
Mountain  News  said  editorially  that  “It  was  demon- 
strated that  the  men,  whose  wise  horses  and  cattle  had 
always  been  hitched  to  the  water  wagon,  thought  this 
was  a mighty  good  time  to  bring  ‘Mollie  and  the  baby’ 
to  Denver,  and  therefore  it  was  the  ‘biggest  show  ever,’  ” 
the  railroads  reporting  25  per  cent,  more  business  than 
in  any  previous  show,  while  the  stores  where  women  buy 
things  just  laughed  with  trade,  and  booze  wasn’t  in  it. 

THE  RAVAGING  DEMON 

Charles  C.  Burleigh  puts  the  every-day  ravages  of  the 
saloon  in  America  in  picturesque  but  truthful  imagery 
in  these  stirring  poetic  lines: 

“My  native  land ! amid  thy  cabin  homes. 

Amid  thy  palaces  a demon  roams. 

Frenzied  with  rage,  yet  subtle  in  his  wrath. 

He  crushes  thousands  in  his  fiery  path ; 

Stalks  through  our  cities  unabashed  and  throws 
Into  the  cup  of  sorrows  bitter  woes ; 

Gives  to  pangs  of  grief  an  added  smart. 

With  keenest  anguish  wrings  the  breaking  heart, 
Drags  the  proud  spirit  from  its  envied  height 
And  breathes  on  fondest  hopes  a killing  blight. 
Heralds  the  shroud,  the  cofiin,  and  the  pall 
And  the  graves  thicken  where  his  footseps  fall.” 

Surely,  a ravaging  demon  of  that  sort  needs  the  elec- 
tric chair  of  National  Prohibition! 

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“A  CRIMINAL  WASTE” 

Who  says  drinking  liquor  is  a criminal  waste?  The 
preacher?  The  college  professor?  The  good  woman? 
Oh,  yes ; they  all  say  it,  but  not  this  time.  It  is  a saloon- 
keeper who  advertises  his  saloon  for  sale  at  a bargain. 
He  says  he  is  sure  National  Prohibition  is  coming,  “not 
so  much  as  a result  of  feverish  and  hysterical  agitation, 
but  as  a result  of  the  majority  of  the  voters  of  the  coun- 
try making  up  their  minds  that  boozing  is  a criminal 
waste  of  time  and  money,  and  booze  a nuisance  and  a 
dangerous  drug.  ’ ’ He  sees  the  end  of  the  liquor  business 
as  a legalized  traffic  and  advises  all  the  men  with  money 
invested  in  it  “to  get  out  while  the  getting  out  is  good.” 
That  is  what  a Kansas  City,  Mo.,  saloon-keeper  says. 


LET  US  ALONE 

Who  says  that  ? The  thief,  the  burglar,  the  smuggler, 
the  forger,  the  murderer,  every  kind  of  criminal  asks 
simply  to  be  let  alone.  We  expect  it  of  these  people,  but 
there  is  another  class  who  say  it  more  frequently,  and 
that  is  the  saloon-keeping  gang. 

Every  liquor  paper  has  anathemas  to  hurl  at  the  med- 
dling preachers  and  the  gadabout  meddling  women,  and 
they  cry  out, “Why  can  not  these  meddlers  let  us  alone !” 
The  answer  is  very  easy.  The  saloon  will  not  let  us  alone. 
The  Kansas  City  Star  says  in  a recent  editorial:  “The 
saloon  will  not  let  the  home  alone;  it  will  not  let  the 
church  alone ; it  will  not  let  the  rural  neighborhood 
alone.  Into  the  peaceful  precincts  of  the  home,  the 
church,  the  farm  it  pushes  its  immoral  influence.  Law 
enforcement  and  the  conduct  of  elections  are  its  special 
prey.  Its  dollars  are  given  recklessly  to  corrupt  the  law 


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and  to  debauch  the  election.  Truly  it  will  not  let  us 
alone.  It  has  forced  the  people  to  fight  it  for  the  pro- 
tection of  every  principle  and  every  institution  they  hold 
in  respect.” 


REFUSE  THEIR  OWN  MEDICINE 

When  Portland,  Ore.,  was  within  a few  weeks  of  go- 
ing dry,  Fred  H.  Rothchild,  one  of  the  big  liquor  dealers, 
moved  his  liquor  saloons  to  San  Francisco,  but  bought 
a fine  home  for  his  family  in  Portland.  He  preferred  a 
dry  city  to  live  in. 

One  of  the  finest  homes  on  the  Pacific  coast  is  owned 
by  Busch,  the  big  beer  man.  Is  it  in  a wet  town?  No 
indeed ! It  is  in  Pasadena,  a town  as  dry  as  a bone.  And 
when  some  other  wet  people  undertook  to  make  Pasadena 
wet,  this  same  Busch  bristled  up  like  a bulldog  when  his 
home  territory  is  invaded  and  fought  alongside  of  the 
preachers  to  keep  Pasadena  dry. 

No,  sir.  They  do  not  like  to  take  their  own  medicine ! 
It  is  for  revenue  only. 


LESS  LIQUOR;  MORE  BREAD 

Mr.  Gordon  Smith,  a widely  known  baker  of  klobile, 
Ala.,  declares,  in  a letter  to  the  Northwestern  Miller,  that 
the  spread  of  Prohibition  throughout  the  country  will 
be  of  benefit  to  the  baker,  because  it  will  increase  the 
production  of  bread.  In  the  course  of  his  letter  he  says : 
“We  have  the  tightest  Prohibition  law  ever  put  on  the 
statute  books  of  any  State.  This  law  aims  to  stop  the 
sale  of  liquors,  and,  if  it  does,  the  poorer  classes  will  have 
more  money  for  bread.”  Speaking  of  his  own  esperi- 


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ence  as  a baker  carrying  on  a very  large  bread  business, 
he  says:  “Bread  consumption  is  very  good;  in  fact,  we 
are  doing  a much  nicer  business  than  at  the  same  time 
last  year.  Alabama  is  thoroughly  dry.  ’ ’ 

The  editor,  commenting  on  this  letter,  says:  “What- 
ever individual  views  may  be  as  to  the  effectiveness  of 
absolute  Prohibition  laws  in  promoting  temperance,  and 
however  opinions  may  differ  as  to  the  desirability  of 
such  laws,  at  least  it  will  be  conceded  that  the  Prohibi- 
tion wave  is  sweeping  over  the  United  States  in  a man- 
ner that  is  resistless,  and  the  prospects  are  that  within 
a few  years  national  legislation  will  be  passed  which  will 
practically  put  liquor  manufacturers  out  of  business. 

“The  truth  is  that  the  people  have  grown  tired  of 
temporizing  with  excessive  drinking,  and  are  disgusted 
at  the  general  failure  of  attempts  to  regulate  the  liquor 
traffic.  In  Southern  States,  like  Alabama,  for  instance, 
the  effect  of  intemperance  upon  the  negro  population  has 
been  such  as  to  force  the  whites,  in  self-protection,  to 
pass  strictly  prohibitive  laws.  In  the  North,  also,  the 
prevalence  of  crime  owing  its  chief  cause  to  alcohol  has 
moved  public  opinion  strongly.  The  result  is  a general 
and  apparently  an  overwhelming  movement  to  settle  the 
whole  question,  once  and  for  all,  by  adopting  stringent 
anti-liquor  laws. 

“The  war  also  has  had  a strong  influence  upon  Amer- 
ican sentiment  in  this  direction.  The  example  of  Russia 
and  Prance  and  the  serious  predicament  in  which  Eng- 
land finds  herself  because  of  her  inability  to  prohibit  or 
even  materially  to  reduce  excessive  drinking  of  alcoholic 
liquors,  have  all  imprest  the  people  of  the  United 
States  with  a sense  of  national  danger,  and  the  deter- 
mination is  undoubtedly  strong  to  put  an  end  to  a grow- 


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ing  evil  before  it  has  reached  such  strength  that  in  time 
of  great  stress  and  necessity  it  can  not  be  taken  off. 

“Whether  this  popular  demand  be  wise  or  otherwise, 
it  is  quite  certain  that  it  is  bound  to  prevail,  and  it  is 
clearly  evident  that  the  business  of  making  and  selling 
alcoholic  liquors  in  the  United  States  is  doomed  to  early 
extinction.  If  the  result,  among  other  things,  should  be 
to  increase  the  consumption  of  bread,  as  Mr.  Gordon 
Smith  believes  it  will,  the  bakers  of  the  country  will  have 
no  reason  to  complain,  altho  many  of  them,  doubtless,  are 
not  in  favor  of  Prohibition. 

“If  the  breweries  should  be  turned  into  bakeries,  while 
it  might  increase  the  competition,  it  would  doubtless  con- 
tribute materially  to  public  happiness  and  prosperity. 
Americans  do  not  eat  as  much  bread  as  they  should,  and 
if  Prohibition  succeeds,  as  it  seems  certain  to,  bakers  will 
have  a practical  opportunity  to  determine  by  the  con- 
sumption of  bread  whether  this  national  tendency  is  due 
to  the  habit  of  drinking  or  otherwise.  ’ ’ 


ORPHANS  AND  DRINK 

Jean  Webster  in  her  fascinating  novel,  “Dear  Ene- 
my,” has  for  her  heroine  the  attractive  and  adorable 
Sally  McBride,  a society  girl,  who  finds  herself  at  the 
head  of  an  orphan  asylum,  and  through  a sympathetic 
study  of  tlie  ancestry  of  her  little  charges,  comes  to  have 
a vigorous  hatred  of  the  liquor  evil.  The  occasion  of  her 
breaking  her  engagement  with  a successful  politician,  a 
member  of  Congress,  is  her  disapproval  of  his  social 
drinking  habits.  “Since  I came  to  this  orphan  asylum,” 
she  explains  in  her  letter  releasing  him  from  the  engage- 
ment, “I  am  extremely  touchy  on  the  subject  of  drink; 


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you  would  be,  too,  if  you  had  seen  what  I have  seen. 
Several  of  my  chicks  are  the  sad  result  of  alcoholic 
parents  and  they  are  never  going  to  have  a fair  chance 
all  their  lives.  You  can’t  look  about  a place  like  this 
without  ‘aye  keeping  up  a terrible  thinking.’  ” 

BREWERY  WASTE  IN  ENGLAND 

Mr.  Alfred  Booth,  at  the  head  of  the  Cunard  Steam- 
ship Company,  made  a great  speech  at  a business  meet- 
ing in  Liverpool,  in  the  course  of  which  he  said : ‘ ‘ The 
most  glaring  example  of  a form  of  consumption  which 
we  could  perfectly  well  dispense  with  is  the  drink  traffic. 
I am  not  thinking  now  of  the  temperance  side  of  the 
question.  Important  tho  that  is,  we  have  got  far  beyond 
that.  I am  thinking  of  the  demand  which  the  trade 
makes  upon  the  services  of  our  ships,  our  railways  and 
carts,  and  of  our  labor.  Thirty  thousand  tons  a week  of 
barley  and  other  produce  are  brought  into  this  country 
for  the  brewing  and  distilling  trades ! Think  of  the  de- 
mand which  this  makes  on  the  depleted  resources  of  our 
mercantile  marine.  Then  all  this  stuff,  together  with 
the  larger  quantity  which  is  grown  at  home,  has  to  be 
carted  and  hauled  by  rail  to  the  brewery  or  distillery. 
Then  it  has  to  he  brought  back  again  and  distributed  to 
the  consumer.  In  addition  to  this,  6,000  miners  are  kept 
permanently  employed  in  getting  coal,  and  36,000  tons 
of  coal  have  to  be  sent  every  week  to  these  breweries  and 
distilleries.  Taken  in  the  aggregate,  the  services  ab- 
sorbed by  this  trade  are  on  a gigantic  scale,  and  the  net 
result  of  it  all  is  a decrease  in  national  efficiency.  I say 
in  all  seriousness  that,  if  we  are  to  maintain  our  armies 
in  the  field,  we  shall  before  long  have  to  choose  between 
bread  and  beer.” 


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IT  GIVES  ONE  AND  TAKES  TEN 

Physicians  all  around  the  world  are  coming  to  a quick- 
ened sense  of  their  duty  to  warn  the  public  of  the  de- 
ceptive character  of  the  effects  of  alcoholic  drinks  on  the 
drinker.  The  old  idea  that  a man  can  brace  up  his  wan- 
ing strength  permanently  by  narcotic  stimulant  is  at  last 
exploded.  There  never  was  any  more  sense  to  it  than 
there  would  be  for  a farmer  to  expect  a whip  to  take  the 
place  of  oats  in  the  care  of  his  horses. 

Dr.  W.  A.  Chappie,  a member  of  the  British  Parlia- 
ment, recently  said:  “Wine  is  a mocker.  It  promises 
what  it  does  not  give.  It  gives  one  and  takes  ten.  But 
this  is  its  primary  deception.  Its  secondary  deception 
is  the  crave  for  more  than  it  ultimately  engenders.  Like 
morphine,  it  creates  a craving  for  itself.” 


TRINITY  CHURCH,  NEW  YORK,  HOLDS  UP  CLEAN 
HANDS 

The  Christian  Herald  of  New  York  city  calls  glad 
and  grateful  attention  to  the  fact  that  at  last  Trinity 
Church,  New  York,  no  longer  has  a saloon  on  its  hands. 
This  improvement  in  the  condition  of  the  church  prop- 
erty was  pointed  out  recently  by  kliss  Emily  W.  Din- 
widdle, in  a report  to  the  Trinity  Parish,  which  is  in- 
cluded in  the  Year  Book.  The  report  states  that  the 
ground  lease  that  had  been  running  for  forty  years  on 
one  block  of  houses  expired  last  year,  and  the  parish 
bought  the  buildings,  refused  renewal  of  the  lease  and 
ousted  the  saloon.  And  the  Trinity  Corporation  did  that 
which  it  has  long  desired — divorced  itself  from  all  rela- 
tionship to  the  saloon,  which  is  the  acknowledged  enemy 


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of  all  for  which  the  Church  stands.  The  assessed  valua- 
tion of  Trinity’s  property,  not  including  property  used 
exclusively  for  church  or  religious  purposes,  is  now  $15,- 
403,700.  The  Trinity  Parish,  in  refusing  to  renew  the 
old  saloon  licenses,  is  keeping  pace  with  the  rapid  march 
of  temperance  public  sentiment,  and  setting  a good  ex- 
ample to  those  persons  of  wealth  who  rent  their  property 
to  be  used  for  immoral  and  criminal  purposes.  The  ac- 
tion of  the  parish  calls  to  mind  these  words:  “Your 
covenant  with  death  shall  be  disannulled,  and  your 
agreement  with  hell  shall  not  stand.”  (Isa.  28:18.) 


SALOON  WRECKAGE 

Some  months  ago  a former  business  man  who  had  been 
employed  at  a salary  of  $5,000  a year,  but  who  had  been 
wrecked  by  strong  drink,  wandered  into  Willard  Hall  in 
Chicago,  asking  for  help,  for  food  and  lodging.  The 
leader  urged  him  to  become  a Christian.  He  answered, 
“ No ! God  has  no  use  for  a man  like  me.  ’ ’ But  the 
leader  said:  “He  loves  you  and  He  has  great  use  for 
the  man  you  can  be.”  He  finally  yielded  and  is  becom- 
ing a valuable  citizen.  It  is  a blest  work  to  reclaim 
and  make  salvage  of  these  wrecked  lives.  Let  the  good 
work  go  on.  But  how  important  that  we  stop  the  wreck- 
ers from  their  wicked  and  desperate  work  of  wrecking 
men  like  that ! 

A BUSINESS  MAN’S  WARNING 

Andrew  Carnegie  gives  his  word  of  warning  to  the 
young  men  of  America  who  wish  to  succeed  in  business, 
in  these  stirring  words:  “I  am  not  a temperance  lec- 
turer in  disguise,  but  a man  who  knows  and  tells  you 


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what  observation  has  proved  to  him;  and  I say  to  you 
that  you  are  more  likely  to  fail  in  your  career  from  ac- 
quiring the  habit  of  drinking  liquor  than  from  any  other 
temptation  likely  to  assail  you.  You  may  yield  to  al- 
most any  other  temptation  and  reform,  but  from  the 
insane  thirst  for  liquor  escape  is  almost  impossible.  I 
have  known  but  few  exceptions  to  this  rule.” 

Why  not  shut  the  places  that  flaunt  this  deadly  lure  ? 

“OLD  MAN  BOOZE”  AND  THE  DIAMOND 

\j  Connie  Mack,  the  trainer  of  the  greatest  baseball  team 
in  the  world,  three  times  world  champions,  said  in  Mc- 
Clure’s Magazine:  “All  the  umpires  together  haven’t 
put  as  many  hall  players  out  of  the  game  as  has  Old 
Man  Booze!” 

But  some  boys  who  tipple  never  expect  to  booze.  They 
say  that  light  drinking  is  harmless.  This,  too,  is  the 
claim  of  the  saloon  man.  Listen  to  Connie  Mack:  “Keep 
in  mind  that  steady — ‘moderate’ — drinking  gets  a ball 
player  in  the  end,  just  as  sure  as  boozing.  Alcohol  slows 
a man  down  inevitably,  and  slowing  down  is  the  reason 
for  the  shelving  of  by  far  the  majority  of  players.  If 
you  estimate  a clever  player’s  years  in  baseball  at  flfteen, 
why,  ‘moderate’  drinking  will  cut  off  from  three  to  flve 
years — a third  of  his  life  on  the  diamond.” 

Again  he  says:  “I  wouldn’t  bother  with  a youngster 
who  drinks.  That’s  my  flxt  policy.” 

When  his  team  returned  home  after  winning  the  last 
world  championship,  the  city  fathers  of  Philadelphia 
gave  them  a banquet.  In  a speech,  one  of  the  team  said : 
“Not  a man  in  the  ‘$100,000  infleld’  had  ever  known 
the  taste  of  liquor.”  What  athletes  we  are  going  to 
have  some  of  these  days  when  the  saloon  is  dead  1 


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THE  WHOLESOME  TRANSFORMATION 

I was  up  in  South  Dakota  in  August  and  a friend  told 
me  about  a brewer  in  that  State  who,  believing  that  the 
State  will  go  dry  next  year,  has  already  built  a big 
bakery  adjoining  his  brewery  and  is  building  up  a large 
bread  business  and  when  State-wide  Prohibition  comes 
he  will  just  add  the  old  beer  plant  to  the  new  bread  busi- 
ness. The  same  kind  of  changes  are  going  on  in  States 
that  have  already  voted  dry.  Most  of  the  breweries  in 
Colorado  are  perfecting  plans  for  new  lines  of  business. 
The  Coors  in  Golden  is  increasing  its  output  of  beautiful 
pottery  made  from  a local  clay  and  is  experimenting 
with  its  malt  for  the  manufacture  of  malted  milk.  Neef 
Brothers  of  Denver  are  making  a new  temperance  drink, 
named  “malt-brew,”  guaranteed  to  contain  no  alcohol. 
The  stockholders  of  the  brewery  located  at  Bellingham, 
Washington,  say  it  is  their  present  intention  to  turn 
their  plant  into  a cold  storage  and  creamery  establish- 
ment for  storing  eggs  and  manufacturing  cheese,  butter 
and  condensed  milk.  One  building  will  be  used  as  an 
ice  plant.  That  kind  of  transformation  must  make  the 
angels  smile. 


THE  SALOON  DEFENSE  FUND 

Dr.  James  R.  Joy,  the  brilliant  editor  of  the  Christian 
Advocate,  never  loses  a chance  to  hit  the  liquor  traffic 
straight  between  the  eyes.  This  editorial  which  follows 
ought  to  open  the  eyes  of  a good  many  people : ‘ ‘ There 
is  never  a meeting  of  the  liquor  interest  that  does  not 
utter  a wail  at  the  manner  in  which  certain  groups  of 
people  in  this  country  are  being  ‘bled’  by  the  enemies  of 
the  saloon,  to  build  up  enormous  campaign  funds,  or, 


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worse  yet,  to  pamper  the  horde  of  speakers  and  salaried 
workers  of  temperance  reform.  Nothing,  however,  that 
has  yet  been  brought  out  has  led  the  people  of  the 
churches  to  regret  their  investment.  “But  there  is  ‘an- 
other side’  which  it  might  be  well  to  hear.  Where,  for 
example,  do  the  liquor  dealers  get  the  funds  for  their 
counter  campaigns  ? First  of  all,  the  liquor  drinker  pays 
a percentage  of  the  ‘defense  fund’  which  is  figured  into 
the  price  of  every  glass.  Next,  the  subsidiary  trades  are 
held  up.  The  glass-blower,  the  demijohn  potter,  the 
cork  importer,  the  bar  hardware  man — all  these  are  ter- 
rified into  contribution.  Even  the  blacksmith  who  shoes 
the  brewers’  big  horses,  and  the  motor-truck  maker  who 
is  taking  his  place,  have  to  lose  a percentage  of  their 
bills.  The  shaving  goes  to  swell  the  defense  fund,  to 
which  it  is  said  every  saloon  in  the  land  pays  monthly 
toll.” 


A SUBSTITUTE  FOR  THE  SALOON 

Dr.  Frederick  Lynch,  in  the  Christian  Work,  has  a 
striking  article  entitled  “To  Banish  Evil  It  Must  Be 
Replaced  by  Good,”  in  which  are  many  suggestions 
worthy  of  careful  study.  Among  other  suggestive  things 
he  says: 

1.  The  saloon  furnishes  companionship.  It  is  a club. 
The  town  or  church  must  furnish  equally  attractive 
rooms  for  its  citizens  and  emphasize  companionship  with- 
out the  evil  things  of  the  saloon. 

2.  The  saloon  furnishes  music.  People  love  music.  It 
is  an  inevitable  thing  in  the  city  saloon.  Nothing  has 
done  more  in  New  York  to  keep  people  out  of  the  saloon 
than  the  free  music  provided  by  the  city.  The  great 


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popular  concerts  given  by  The  Globe  in  New  York  last 
week,  at  which  many  thousands  were  present,  are  an  in- 
dex of  what  cities  might  do.  In  some  towns  in  Europe 
there  are  five  bands  supported  by  the  town  which  play 
every  night. 

3.  The  saloon  offers  its  rooms  free  to  any  committee  or 
organization  that  wants  to  use.  them.  This,  is  why  they 
are  used  so  much  by  the  labor  unions.  Why  should  not 
the  churches  offer  free  rooms? 

4.  Half  the  people  who  go  to  saloons  go  there  because 
there  is  nowhere  else  to  go.  If  the  Christian  people  of 
every  community  would  see  that  there  were  light,  cozy, 
attractive  places  where  books,  papers  and  magazines 
abounded;  where  there  were  gymnasiums  and  baths; 
where  there  were  all  sorts  of  amusements;  where  soft 
drinks  could  be  bought ; where-  there  were  classes  for  all 
who  wanted  them — all  these  things  as  conspicuous  as  is 
the  saloon,  as  free  from  restrictions,  as  inviting,  as  omni- 
present, a great  beginning  would  be  made. 

THE  WORLD  MOVES 

Maria  H.  Gordon  recently  called  attention  to  the  fact 
that  only  twenty-one  years  ago  an  eminent  professor  at 
the  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College  of  New  York 
city,  in  a lecture  to  students,  recommended  alcohol  for 
practically  all  acute  and  infectious  diseases.  Any  teacher 
who  would  give  such  instruction  to-day  would  be  hissed 
out  of  the  room. 

Think  how  far  we  have  traveled  in  that  twenty-one 
years,  to  have  come  to  the  day  when  brandy  and  whisky 
are  left  out  of  the  pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States 
and  no  longer  recognized  as  medicines  at  all.  Let  every 
earnest  worker  thank  God  and  take  courage ! 


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PROHIBITION  SONGS  IN  RUSSIA 

The  last  news  from  Russia  is  that  nearly  all  the  recent 
popular  songs  deal  with  the  blessings  brought  to  the  peo- 
ple by  Prohibition.  M.  Vaninkoff  has  recently  published 
in  Novoie  Vremia  thirty -three  popular  songs  now  being 
sung  in  the  villages  of  the  Pakoff.  Eighteen  of  these 
songs  chant  the  praise  of  the  new  law  against  vodka  and 
the  blessing  it  has  brought  to  the  homes  of  the  people. 

A new  story  from  Russia  also  shows  how  it  is  affecting 
the  working  people.  A group  of  working  men  having 
accumulated  a little  money  thought  they  would  go  down 
to  Petrograd  over  Sunday,  thinking  that  surely  in  that 
great  city  they  would  be  able  to  get  liquor  for  a celebra- 
tion. But  they  could  not  find  a drop  of  liquor  on  sale 
anywhere  and  so  in  despair  they  each  bought  a new  suit 
of  clothes  with  the  money  they  had  intended  to  blow  in, 
and  went  home  sober  Monday  morning  to  their  work. 
Such  is  the  sad  fate  to  which  the  working  men  of  Russia 
are  now  driven. 

RECRUITS  FROM  ANTI-SUMPTUARY  CROWD 

A very  distinguished  Protestant  Episcopal  clergyman 
said  to  me,  the  other  day,  that  he  had  been  brought  up 
in  that  wing  of  the  Democratic  party  which,  from  time 
immemorial,  has  always  been  radically  opposed  to  all 
kinds  of  sumptuary  legislation.  He  had  inherited  from 
his  father,  and  imbibed,  with  the  very  air  he  breathed, 
from  the  opinions  of  his  friends  and  comrades,  a hatred 
and  horror  of  Prohibition;  but  he  said:  “I  have  been 
forced  to  a change,  and  the  same  change  is  coming  over 
a large  part  of  the  men  who  have  believed  as  I have. 
We  have  been  forced  by  the  waste  and  shame  and  de- 


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grading  influence  of  the  saloon  to  the  conviction  that  the 
liquor  saloon  is  inherently  a rotting,  evil  sore  in  the  com- 
munity— that  it  is  bad  in  its  very  essence — that  it  is  an 
infectious,  vicious  contagion  that  nothing  can  cleanse 
or  cure,  and  that  it  deserves,  from  every  standpoint  of 
decency  and  good  morals,  to  be  abated,  just  as  a pig-sty 
or  slaughter-house  would  be  abated  from  a crowded  resi- 
dence section  of  a city.  We  have  come  to  the  conclu- 
sion that  the  liquor  saloon  is  a nasty,  evil-smelling, 
poison  nuisance,  and  to  the  abatement  of  that  nuisance 
thousands  of  men,  who  like  myself  have  stood  on  the 
other  side,  are  now  coming  over  to  State-wide  and 
Nation-wide  Prohibition.” 


DOWN  HILL  WITHOUT  A BRAKE 

When  the  brake  gives  way  on  an  automobile,  it  often 
rushes  to  destruction.  A man  is  in  a still  more  danger- 
ous condition  when  strong  drink  has  destroyed  his  power 
of  restraint,  which  is  the  safety  brake  in  the  human 
organism.  Dr.  Edward  Vipont  Brown,  one  of  the  most 
eminent  of  English  doctors,  recently  wrote:  “The 
physiologist  has  always  laid  great  stress  upon  what  he 
calls  ‘inhibition.’  The  word  inhibition  means  restraint. 
It  is  the  brake  you  put  on  your  bicycle  to  prevent  its 
running  away  with  you  down  hill.  Without  this  power 
of  inhibition,  we  should  all  be  mere  creatures  of  impulse 
and  slaves  of  passion.  . . . And  this  is  why  the  modest 
and  reticent  man  becomes,  under  the  influence  of  alco- 
hol, pushing,  offensive  and  loquacious.  It  is  not  that 
alcohol  has  stimulated  his  brain.  It  is  that  it  has  para- 
lyzed his  power  of  self-control.” 

In  other  words,  it  has  destroyed  the  brake  and  turned 


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him  loose  to  run  wild.  We  often  say  of  some  seemingly 
brave  deed  done  by  a man  under  the  influence  of  liquor 
that  it  was  “Dutch  courage.”  The  story  is  told  of  an 
amateur  mountain  climber  who  told  his  friend  that 
whenever  he  had  a crevasse  to  jump  he  took  a drink  of 
spirits  and  would  then  jump  like  a bird.  “You  should 
say  rather,’"  answered  the  wise  veteran  climber,  “you 
jumped  like  a fool.” 


DRINKING  TO  FAILURE 

Said  a member  of  a church  near  Philadelphia  the 
other  day : “I  was  talking  to  a colored  man  whom  I was 
examining  for  insurance.  The  colored  people  are  in  the 
habit  of  using  words  they  do  not  fully  understand  the 
caning  of,  and  as  a result  they  invariably  misplace 
them.  I asked  him,  ‘Do  you  drink  alcoholic  liquors?’ 
The  darkey  answered,  ‘No,  I can’t  say  I does;  and  I 
can’t  say  I doesn’t.  But  I never  done  drink  to  success.’'^ 
And  no  one  else  drinks  to  success.  The  current  of 
drink  is  never  toward  success,  but  failure. 


THE  MANLY  MAN 

I have  come  across  this  beautiful  poem  on  ‘ ‘ The  Manly 
Man.”  Surely  this  is  the  man  we  all  want  to  see  grow- 
ing and  developing  in  town  and  country  everj*where,  but 
wherever  the  saloon  blight  falls  such  breeding  of  man- 
hood is  impossible.  Let  us  shut  the  door  of  the  business 
that  prevents  the  dream  of  the  poet  from  coming  true : 

The  world  has  room  for  the  manly  man  with  the  spirit  of 
manly  cheer ; 

The  world  delights  in  the  man  who  smiles  when  his  eyes 
keep  back  the  tear; 


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It  loves  the  man  who,  when  things  go  wrong,  can  take 
his  place  and  stand 

With  his  face  to  the  fight  and  his  eyes  to  the  light,  and 
toil  with  a willing  hand. 

The  manly  man  is  the  country’s  need,  and  the  moment’s 
need,  forsooth, 

With  a heart  that  beats  to  the  pulsing  tread  of  the  allied 
leagues  of  truth ; 

The  world  is  his,  and  it  waits  for  him  and  it  leaps  to  hear 
the  ring 

Of  the  blows  he  strikes  and  the  wheels  he  turns  and  the 
hammers  he  dares  to  swing; 

It  likes  the  forward  look  in  his  face,  the  poise  of  his  noble 
head, 

And  the  onward  lunge  of  his  tireless  will  and  the  sweep 
of  his  dauntless  tread. 

Hurrah  for  the  manly  man  who  comes  with  sunlight  on 
his  face. 

And  the  strength  to  do  and  the  will  to  dare,  and  the 
courage  to  find  his  place ! 

The  world  delights  in  the  manly  man,  and  the  weak  and 
evil  flee 

When  the  manly  man  goes  forth  to  hold  his  own  on  land 
or  sea! 


LIQUOR  AS  A SUBSTITUTE 

Henry  J.  Allen,  the  brilliant  Wichita,  Kansas,  editor, 
quoting  from  a circular  sent  out  by  the  brewers  which 
says  “Beer  may  be  substituted  for  bread,”  goes  on  to 
say:  “Frequently  it  is  also  substituted  for  shoes,  and 
school  books,  and  clothes,  and  meat,  and  house  rent,  and 
furniture.  In  fact,  a liberal  use  of  it  will  make  a sub- 
stitute for  everything  except  the  grave.” 


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IN  THE  QUICKSANDS 

Two  children,  Emma  Pentecost,  eight,  and  her  sister 
Marie,  six  years  of  age,  ran  into  a quicksand  near  Ho- 
boken, N.  J.,  the  other  night  and  were  saved  from  death 
by  the  father.  They  had  all  been  visiting  friends,  and 
were  returning  home  after  dark.  The  girls  were  running 
a little  distance  ahead  of  their  father,  and  blundered 
into  the  ooze,  and  each  step  to  extricate  themselves  only 
plunged  them  deeper  in  the  mire.  They  screamed  for 
help,  and  their  father  ran  to  their  rescue.  He  found 
them  with  their  shoulders,  neck  and  head  only  above 
the  quicksands,  and  after  a long  and  desperate  struggle 
he  got  them  out,  but  not  until  he  had  sunken  to  his  o'wn 
hips,  coming  near  to  the  loss  of  his  own  life. 

The  liquor  saloon  spreads  the  danger  of  moral  quick- 
sands in  every  town  and  community  where  it  exists. 
How  strange  and  wicked  that  we  should  license  for 
money  the  deliberate  ,ruin  not  only  of  boys  and  girls, 
but  of  men  and  women,  in  these  deadly  quicksands. 


LITTLE  TASTE  OF  PROHIBITION 

I was  speaking  the  other  night  for  National  Prohibi- 
tion in  the  town  of  California,  Mo.  I was  introduced  by 
the  mayor,  who,  after  some  pleasant  personal  remarks, 
said: 

“Perhaps  Dr:_,®anks  would  be  interested  in  knowing 
that  two  years  ago  we  voted  out  our  saloons  and  some 
of  the  business  men  even  said  the  grass  would  grow  in 
our  streets  and  that  half  the  houses  would  be  to  let,  but 
business  was  never  so  good;  all  the  buildings  that  were 
occupied  by  saloons  are  filled  with  decent,  helpful  busi- 


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nesses  and  there  is  not  either  a vacant  business  or  dwell- 
ing- house  in  our  town  to-day.” 

Then  he  went  on  to  say  that  in  the  last  nine  months 
before  the  saloons  were  voted  out,  sixty-five  of  their  own 
citizens  were  arrested  and  fined  for  drunkenness,  and 
in  the  first  nine  months  after  the  saloons  were  gone  only 
nine  were  arrested  and  only  four  of  them  were  their 
own,  five  being  arrested  and  put  off  the  train  who  be- 
longed in  wet  towns.  He  also  stated,  as  the  people 
cheered  his  statement,  that  a score  or  more  of  his  friends 
who  seemed  on  a fast  toboggan  for  ruin  through  drink 
had,  since  the  saloons  were  gone,  straightened  up  and 
were  living  soberly  and  happily  without  it. 

Such  testimonies  give  us  courage  to  continue  the  good 
fight  until  the  grog-shop  is  banished. 


NOT  “PRETTY  SOON”  BUT  NOW 

Ex-President  Taft  is  out  in  a strange  article  on  woman 
suffrage  in  which  he  favors  it  “pretty  soon,”  but  not 
now.  There  are  a good  many  people  convinced  of  the 
righteousness  of  Prohibition  who  expect  to  help  it 
“pretty  soon,”  but  are  not  helping  now.  This  little 
poem  illustrates  and  emphasises  the  folly  of  such  a posi- 
tion ; , 

“I  know  a land  where  the  streets  are  paved 
"With  the  things  we  meant  to  achieve ; 

It  is  walled  with  the  money  we  me9,nt  to  have  saved 
And  the  pleasures  for  which  we  -^ieve. 

The  kind  words  unspoken,  the  promises  broken. 

And  many  a coveted  boon 

Are  stowed  away  there,  in  that  land  somewhere. 

The  Land  of  Pretty  Soon. 


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“There  are  uncut  jewels  of  possible  fame 
Lying  about  in  the  dust, 

And  many  a noble  and  lofty  aim 
Covered  with  mold  and  rust. 

And  oh,  this  place  while  it  seems  so  near 
Is  farther  away  than  the  moon ; 

Tho  our  purpose  is  there,  yet  we  never  get  there — 
The  Land  of  Pretty  Soon. 

“The  road  that  leads  to  that  mystic  land 
Is  strewn  with  pitiful  wrecks. 

And  the  ships  that  have  sailed  for  its  shining  strand 
Bear  skeletons  on  their  decks. 

It  is  farther  at  noon  than  it  was  at  dawn, 

And  farther  at  night  than  at  noon. 

0 let  us  beware  of  that  land  down  there — 

The  Land  of  Pretty  Soon.” 

THE  PROHIBITION  WAVE 

“When  a flock  of  curlews,”  says  a recent  writer,  “fly 
from  Nova  Scotia  to  South  America,  twenty-flve  hundred 
miles  in  three  days,  it  is  a remarkable  example  of  quick 
transition.  The  birds  were  not  blown  there  by  accident 
through  the  vagaries  of  a gale  of  wind.  They  set  out  for 
Soifth  America,  and  every  bird  got  there  on  his  own 
wings.” 

The  present  temperance  condition  is  like  that.  The 
uninformed  citizen  looks  on  in  amazement  and  sees  nine 
great  States  go  for  Prohibition  in  a single  year,  and 
thinks  it  the  work  of  some  unexplained  political  earth- 
quake— but  it  is  not  so.  These  States  and  others  that 
will  soon  he  with  them  started  out  for  Prohibition  years 


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ago  and  the  agitation  and  education  that  have  been  go- 
ing on  all  these  years,  given  added  force  by  an  economic 
wave  that  has  been  rising  for  a long  time,  are  coming 
to  their  own.  National  Prohibition  has  been  on  the  way 
for  over  fifty  years  and  it  is  now  nearly  due. 


ONLY  VAST  COOPERATION  CAN  FIGHT  LIQUOR 
SUCCESSFULLY 

The  saloon  is  only  on  the  scout  line  of  the  liquor  traffic. 
The  liquor  traffic  is  a vast  combination  backed  by  enor- 
mous capital.  It  has  all  the  power  of  cooperation,  the 
key  to  modern  affairs.  An  individual  can  do  nothing 
against  such  a force.  This  is  no  war  to  be  decided  by  a 
duel  between  some  temperance  David  and  a liquor 
Goliath. 

Millions  of  men  and  millions  of  money  must  be  com- 
bined by  the  Anti-Saloon  League  from  the  great  Chris- 
tian and  patriotic  hosts  of  America  to  fight  and  win  this 
mightiest  battle  in  the  history  of  civilization. 


A GOOD  WORKING  CREED 

Howard  A.  Walters  gives  a good  working  creed  for 
earnest  soldiers  of  the  common  good  in  these  simple  lines : 
“I  would  be  true,  for  there  are  those  who  trust  ine ; 

I would  be  pure,  for  there  are  those  who  care ; 

I would  be  strong,  for  there  is  much  to  suffer ; 

I would  be  brave,  for  there  is  much  to  dare. 

I would  be  friend  of  all — the  foe — the  friendless ; 

I would  be  giving,  and  forget  the  gift ; 

I would  be  humble,  for  I know  my  weakness ; 

I would  look  up — and  laugh — and  love — and  lift.” 


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NATIONAL  PROHIBITION  AND  MISSIONS 

I know  a number  of  good  and  generous  people  who  de- 
cline to  contribute  to  the  Anti-Saloon  League  because 
they  give  largely  to  foreign  missions,  but  that  seems  to 
me  very  shortsighted.  In  my  judgment,  the  greatest 
help  that  could  possibly  come  to  foreign  missions,  greater 
than  the  doubling  of  their  present  income,  would  be  the 
triumph  of  National  Prohibition  in  the  United  States. 

For  instance,  at  the  present  time  over  55  per  cent,  of 
the  liquor  entering  Africa  goes  from  Boston,  Mass.  Re- 
cently a schooner  sailed  from  Boston  with  700,000  gal- 
lons of  New  England  rum  on  board.  Bottles  of  rum  in 
crates  were  lashed  on  the  deck.  Every  seaman  was  com- 
pelled to  sign  a total  abstinence  pledge  before  signing 
articles  for  the  voyage.  Boston,  from  which  missionaries 
have  been  sent  out  for  over  a hundred  years,  now  in  this 
year  of  grace  is  sending  out  what  Lyman  Beecher  called 
“liquid  damnation.”  This  is  the  same  city  that  sent  out 
Adoniram  Judson  and  his  fellow  missionaries  to  en- 
lighten the  heathen.  The  United  States  sent  to  the  four 
British  colonies  in  Africa  during  the  year  1912  1,032,- 
658  gallons  of  rum.  In  the  same  year,  Germany  sent 
1,010,759  gallons  of  gin  and  389,377  gallons  of  rum,  and 
Holland  sent  2,562,136  gallons  of  gin  and  136,975  gal- 
lons of  rum.  In  five  years,  from  1907  to  1912,  there 
•v^ere  sent  into  those  four  colonies  35,680,078  gallons  of 
intoxicating  liquor.  These  figures  do  not  include  the 
Orange  Free  State,  the  Transvaal,  Cape  Colony,  or  the 
Portuguese,  French  and  Spanish  colonies. 

If  to  those  countries  already  enumerated  we  add  India, 
China,  Japan,  Ceylon,  the  New  Hebrides  and  the  Fiji 
Islands,  we  have  the  remarkable  spectacle  of  the  so-called 
Christian  nations  pouring  something  like  100,000,000 


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gallons  of  rum  and  other  intoxicating  liquors  in  five 
years  into  countries  where  Christian  missionaries  are 
preaching  the  Gospel  and  trying  to  save  souls ! What 
wonder  that  Mohammedans,  Brahmans  and  Buddhists 
— all  total  abstainers — should  cast  an  eye  of  suspicion 
and  distrust  upon  a religion  which  winks  at  the  debase- 
ment of  the  people  it  is  trying  to  save? 

Let  us  hasten  to  put  Uncle  Sam  out  of  this  accurst 
business. 


LICENSING  A SALOON  TO  DEFEAT  GOD 

William  H.  Ridgway,  writing  in  the  Sunday-School 
Times  on  the  text,  “The  Kingdom  of  God  Is  Within 
You,”  illustrates  it  this  way : “Do  you  believe  that?  A 
mysterious  something  is  inside  this  bundle  of  tissues  and 
bones.  This  thing  we  call  us,  this  soul  of  ours,  is  a won- 
der, an  enigma,  a problem,  an  awe,  a And  just  here 

A1  Jackson  called  me  up  to  come  to  the  mill  and  speak 
to  the  ‘down-and-outs.’  A labor  famine  is  on.  The 
Lukens  Company  has  brought  the  converts  from  the 
Inasmuch  Mission  to  work  in  the  mills.  They  are  housed, 
some  seventy-five  of  them,  in  an  old  mansion  by  the  gate. 
Religious  services  are  held  nightly.  I spoke  there.  One 
of  the  ‘bums’  played  the  organ — an  expert  jeweler  and 
a victim  of  drink ; working  in  the  steel  mills  like  the  rest 
of  the  ‘down-and-outs.’  When  testimonies  were  asked 
for  he  gave  his  with  a shining,  glorified  face.  He  has 
been  a Christian  three  weeks.  Working  daily  in  a steel 
plant  in  midsummer  heat  at  hardest  kind  of  labor.  He 
says  these  are  three  of  the  happiest  weeks  of  his  life.  No 
one  who  looked  into  his  clean  and  beaming  face  doubt- 
ed it.” 


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And  yet  the  United  States  Government  deliberately 
licenses  saloons  to  furnish  devil-water  to  drive  the 
“Kingdom  of  God”  out  of  the  hearts  of  men  like  that, 
and  replace  it  with  the  most  devilish  passions  and  appe- 
tites known  to  hell.  It  is  time  this  iniquity  stopt,  and  it 
is  going  to  stop  ! 


SLOGANS  FOR  SUFFRAGE 

Here  are  some  of  the  slogans  which  appeared  in  the 
great  woman  suffrage  parade  in  Chicago: 

“For  the  safety  of  the  nation,  let  the  women  have  the 
vote. 

For  the  hand  that  rocks  the  cradle  will  never  rock  the 
boat.  ’ ’ 

Plenty  of  Argument  hut  No  Reasons  Against  Suffrage. 
Which  Party  Will  Have  the  Honor  of  Adopting  Us  ? 
First,  Ridicule.  Then  Rights,  Last  Respect. 

Ask  Dad ! He  knows.  Mother  Told  Him. 

Boats  for  Women! 

Certified  IMentally,  Morally  and  Physically  Fit.  Why 
Not  Politically? 

We’ve  Tried  Tandem.  Let’s  Try  Team  Work. 
Government  Should  Know  No  Sex. 

A Republic  That  Is  Half  Free  Can  Not  Endure. 

The  United  States  Means  Us  as  Well  as  You. 

Why  Can’t  I Ask  for  Myself,  John? 

Women,  the  De-Voted  IMothers  of  Our  Country. 

The  Big  Stick  We  Want  is  the  Ballot. 

Woman  suffrage  is  coming  and  with  overwhelming  re- 
inforcements for  Prohibition.  God  hasten  the  march  to 
victory  1 


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THE  NEW  HIAWATHA 

Here  are  some  lines,  the  author  of  which  I do  not 
know,  written  in  the  rhythm  of  Longfellow’s  “Hia- 
watha,” that  ought  to  catch  the  attention  of  every  voter 
in  the  land : 

“Stop  and  think,  0 Christian  voter. 

Can  you  stand  as  a promoter 
Of  a traffic  so  destructive, 

Blighting  everything  productive 
And  to  every  vice  seductive, 

Bearing  only  saddest  sorrow 
On  its  tide  to-day,  to-morrow. 

While  you  pray  ‘Thy  kingdom  come 
And  Thy  will  on  earth  be  done?’  ” 


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BEWARE  OF  SALOON  MANUFACTURED  “FACTS” 

Prof.  John  A.  Nicholls,  writing  in  the  Union  Signal, 
calls  attention  again  to  the  bare-faced  lying  of  the  pres- 
ent liquor  propaganda,  which  is  going  on:  “Under  the 
head  of  ‘Prisoners,’  the  alleged  ‘Facts’  of  the  drink- 
dealers  present  a so-called  comparison  of  wet  and  dry 
States.  This  is  another  attempt  to  deceive.  It'  repre- 
sents the  rate  of  prisoners  actually  incarcerated,  utterly 
ignoring  the  parole  systems  of  the  different  States.  It 
mentions  Kansas  as  having  a rate  per  100,000  o:|^91.1 
and  Nebraska  only  55.1.  The  rate  of  commitments  to 
prison  in  the  two  States  named  was  as  follows : Nebras- 
ka, 482  per  100,000  population;  Kansas,  196  per  100,000 
population.  The  United  States  Census  report  shows  that 
Nebraska,  with  nearly  500,000  less  population  than  Kan- 
sas, committeed  5,888  delinquents  in  1910,  while  Kansas 
committed  3,594.  It  has  been  well  said  that  ‘Figures 


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will  not  lie,  but  liars  will  figure.’  Beware  of  drink-manu- 
factured ‘Facts.’  If  the  inferences  conveyed  by  the 
liquor  literature  are  correct,  tlrejfi  wo  to  any  State  that 
comes  under  the  blight  of  Prohibition.  Churches  will 
decrease  in  membership,  school’ attendance  will  fall  off, 
crime  will  increase  and  general  prosperity  will  cease. 
And  yet  Maine,  surrounded  by  license  territory,  has  to- 
day 238,586  depositors  in  her  savings  banks,  with  de- 
posits of  $97,423,088.63  and  no  legal  dramshops.  In 
other  words,  Maine,  with  a population  of  742,371,  has 
one  depositor  in  the  savings  bank  for  every  three  and  a 
quarter  persons,  including  men,  women  and  children.” 


A VERY  “LIBERAL  LEAGUE” 

The  saloon  crowd  no  longer  dares  appeal  to  the  people 
under  their  own  colors,  and  so  they  have  all  sorts  of  new 
masquerades — “The  Liberal  League”  is  quite  popular 
with  them.  One  of  the  leaders  of  this  organization  at 
the  National  Wholesale  Liquor  Dealers’  convention  in 
his  appeal  said:  “I  am  here  in  the  interest  of  the  Lib- 
eral League.  I will  explain,  for  the  benefit  of  those  who 
do  not  understand  it,  exactly  what  it  Is.  I will  try  to 
give  you  in  a short,  concise  way,  what  it  means  and  what 
it  is.  The  Liberal  League  was  born  and  bred  in  Hamil- 
ton County,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  about  two  years  ago.-  It  is 
composed  of  all  the  employees  of  tho  wholesale  whisky 
houses,  distilleries,  breweries,  allied  trades,  and  anybody 
whose  sympathies  lie  with  us.  This',  league  eliminates 
entirely  politics,  religion  and  fratern^i^.* . For  this  rea- 
son it  is  the  bulwark  of  our  organi^.titm-Jhat  no  man 
can  bring  .up' any  subject  for  diseu'^oii'-in.  any  of  our 
meetings  except  anti-Prohibition.  I’Np.-'matter  who  he 


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may  be,  no  matter  what  prestige  he  carries,  no  matter 
what  influence  he  may  have,  we  stick  to  anti-Prohibition. 
The  moment  we  get  into  any  entanglements  with  politics, 
religion,  unionism,  or  any  kind  of  fraternalism,  the  bul- 
wark of  our  organization's  gone.  (Applause.)  We  owe 
to  that  the  success  of  our  organization  during  the  past 
two  years,  and  we  have  jnet  with  success  in  that  way.” 

And  that  is  the  lying  fake  with  which  they  hope  to  fool 
people. 


TRADE  FOLLOWING  THE  FLAG 

Dr.  Hammill  says  that  it  is  our  proud  American  boast 
that  “Trade  follows  the  flag.”  One  branch  of  trade 
usually  manages  to  keep  a little  ahead  of  the  flag.  And 
it  is  often  true  that  the  first  American  flag  unfurled  to 
the  breeze  in  a new  country  is  over  some  shack  which 
houses  a liquor  saloon.  This  is  used  against  the  mission- 
ary in  heathen  lands.  When  the  Mohammedan  goes  in, 
the  wineshop  goes  out.  What  a shame  that  the  coming 
in  of  a Christian  nation  like  ours  should  mean  the  sodden 
rule  of  the  saloon ! 

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A CONGRESSMAN’S  STRONG  WORDS 

It  would  be  well  if  the  utterance  of  Congressman 
Francis  0.  Lindquist  could  be  committed  to  memory  b^ 
every  young  citi?en  of  America!  “If  there  were  an  in- 
stitution of  any  kind  in  our  land  that  b&gan  deliberately 
to  cut  off  the  left  .h^nd  of  every  man  who  came  within 
its  walls,  there  be  a unanimous  action  by  Congress 

in  five  minutes’  to"  imprison  and  punish . its  organizers. 
Such  an  atropity.  would  not  be  tolerated.  But  this  could 
not  be  compared  with'  the  atrocities  of  the  lifluor  organ- 


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izations.  The  loss  of  a hand  is  not  to  be  compared  with 
the  loss  of  the  mind.  For  liquor  steals  the  mind,  weak- 
ens the  will,  and  so  completely  demoralizes  a man  and 
robs  not  only  the  pocketbook  and  the  home,  but  also 
destroys  the  very  temple  of  the  soul.  It  destroys  char- 
acter, and  that  which  destroys  character  will  eventually 
destroy  this  nation.  If  we  wish  to  have  a nation  of 
strong  men  to  carry  out  the  ideals  of  the  great  founders 
of  America,  there  is  only  one  action  to  take,  and  that  is 
to  abolish  once  and  forever  this  great  curse  of  the  liquor 
traffic  which  is  contrary  to  every  fundamental  principle 
of  our  Government.” 

TIME  TO  SHUT  THE  FACTORY 

There  is  still  in  existence  an  EgjT)tian  papyrus  of  the 
date  of  3,500  years  before  the  Christian  era,  which  con- 
tains the  following  caution:  “My  son,  do  not  linger  in 
the  wine-shop  or  drink  too  much  wine.  It  causeth  thee 
to  utter  words  regarding  thy  neighbor  which  thou  re- 
memberest  not.  Thou  fallest  upon  the  ground,  thy 
limbs  become  weak  as  those  of  a child.  One  cometh  to 
trade  with  thee  and  findeth  thee  so.  Then  they  say, 
‘Take  away  ‘the  fellow,  for  he  is  drunk.’  ” This  is  be- 
lieved to  be  the  oldest  temperance  lecture  in  existence. 

CONSERVATION  COULD  GO  NO  FARTHER 

Hero,  is  an  editorial  in  the  Oregon  Voter.  The  editor 
has|  b5#h  looking  on  at  the  enforcement  of  Prohibition  in 
ai^r Idaho  town  and  reports:  “Prohibition  has  trans- 
forraed 'Wallace,  Idaho.  Until  Prohibition  came,  the 
city  was  a typical  mining  camp.  Drunken  men  were  in 
the  streets.  The  saloons  got  the  pay  checks.  Women  un- 


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attended  were  unsafe  abroad  at  night.  The  contrast  to- 
day is  startling.  Business  streets  are  crowded  every 
evening,  but  what  a difference  in  the  crowd ! Wives  and 
families  are  with  their  husbands  and  fathers.  Stores 
and  moving-picture  houses  are  patronized.  Women  are 
not  jostled  by  reeling  ruffians  or  shocked  by  maudlin 
blasphemy.  Savings  bank  deposits  are  increasing. 
Weekly  bills  are  being  paid  to  merchants.  Clothing 
and  furniture  stores  are  doing  a brisk  business.  Homes 
and  families  are  being  drest  up.  School  children  have 
good,  stout  shoes.  And  the  mine  operators  report 
improvements  in  efficiency.  Monday  morning  finds 
workmen  in  good  condition,  heads  clear,  and  punc- 
tual. Accidents  are  fewer.  ‘Safety  first’  rules  are 
observed.  ’ ’ 

And  then  he  closes  with  this  paragraph:  “No,  dear 
reader,  this  not  an  argument  for  Prohibition.  We  are 
opposed  to  the  principle.  But  we  are  very  much  im- 
prest by  the  facts  we  meet  where  Prohibition  is  enforced 
rigidly,  very  much  imprest.”  Isn’t  that  funny? 


PREPARING  FOR  A BETTER  DAY  ' 

An  Oregon  newspaper  tells  of  Municipal  Judge  Stev- 
enson’s plan  to  prepare  habitual  drunkards  for  the 
coming  of  Prohibition,  due  to  arrive,  iu'  Oregon 
January  1.  He  had  two  such  unfortunate  Yictims  of 
the  liquor  habit  up  before  him  on  the  old;  charge'  of 
drunkenness  recently  and  sentenced  them  bottf.i4o'  ^- 
prisonment  until  the  Prohibition  law  went  into  .effisct. 
In  doing  so,  the  Judge  is  reported  to  have  declared 
that  to  be  the  policy  he  would  follow  in  like  cases  here- 
after. 


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LIQUOR  A DISEASE  BREEDER 

W.  J.  V.  Deacon,  Registrar  of  Kansas  Vital  Statistics 
Bureau,  was  called  on  by  Samuel  L.  Rogers,  director  of 
the  United  States  Bureau  of  the  Census,  at  the  close  of 
1915,  to  give  a reason  for  the  extraordinary  healthfulness 
of  Kansas,  whose  returns  showed  a death-rate  of  only 
9.8  per  thousand  population,  which  is  the  lowest  in  the 
Union.  Mr.  Deacon  replied,  in  substance,  that  Kansas 
has  the  lowest  death-rate  because  the  people  of  the  State 
do  not  drink  liquor ; because  they  have  money  enough  to 
live  right,  and  because  they  have  the  intelligence  to  read 
of  the  conditions  that  made  for  short  lives  and  know  how 
to  dodge  them. 

Somehow  the  whisky  States  do  not  show  up  well  in 
health  competitions. 

AND  NOW  COMES  JAPAN 

Japan  is  getting  ready  to  clothe  herself  still  more  per- 
fectly in  the  garb  of  the  latest  Western' civilization  by 
giving  sake  the  grand  bounce.  Sake  to  Japan  is  what 
vodka  is  to  Russia,  absinthe  to  France  oi^John  Barley- 
corn to  the  Uniteci  States.  At  the  Baltiil^e  Hotel,  in 
Kansas  City,  Mo.,  the  other  day,  I met  Prof.  T.  Sakurai, 
professor  in  the  School  !of  Technology  at  Youerawa  in 
Japan.  He  has  been  ^nt  on  a mission  in  Kansas  to 
study  at  first-hand  the  qfffects  of  Prohibition  on  the  hu- 
man animal.  He  has  been  saturating  himself  with  the 
wonderful  showing,  economically  and  md^lly,  which 
Kansas  _ makes  to  the  student  of  affairs*  Professor 
Sakurai  says  that  Japan  is  approaching  a point  where 
she  must  make  a decision  as  to  her  course  and  that  in  his 
opinion  “Prohibition  is  the  coming  question  of  the 
century.” 


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DO  YOUR  PART 

A poet  sings  very  tenderly : 

“There’s  never  a rose  in  all  the  world  but  makes  some 
green  spray  sweeter, 

There ’s  never  a wind  in  all  the  sky  but  makes  some  bird 
fly  fleeter ; 

There’s  never  a «star  but  brings  to  heaven  some  silver 
radiance  tender, 

And  never  a rosy  cloud  but  helps  to  crown  the  sunset 
splendor. 

No  robin  but  may  thrill  some  heart,  his  dream-like  glad- 
ness voicing; 

God  gives  us  all  some  small,  sweet  way  to  set  the  world 
rejoicing.” 

To  live  in  that  spirit  is  to  be  truly  alive. 

Every  blow  we  strike  to  shut  the  saloon  will  help  to 
soothe  the  heartaches  of  the  world. 

IT’LL  GET  YE! 

Fred  Emerson  Brooks,  the  poet'-  of  the  sagebrush 
plains  and  the  high  and  breezy  places  where  the  air  is 
good  for  clear  vision,  puts  it  ^aight  in  this  little  song : 

■t-If  you  make  a friend  of  liquor 
It’ll  get  ye  1 

' Aud  the  more  you  drink  the  quicker 
' It’ll  get  ye! 

> Make  no  boast  of  being  strong  • -V  ' 

Just  to  jolly  self  along; 

Every  toper  proves  you  wrong — 

It’ll  get  ye! 


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“There’s  a demon  in  the  bottle — 
It’ll  get  ye! 

It  has  never  failed  to  throttle — 

It’ll  get  ye! 

It  will  wreck  your  life  career, 
Poison  those  whom  you  hold  dear — 
Bring  you  all  the  hell  that ’s  here — 
It’ll  get  ye!” 


THE  CALL  TO  PUBLIC  SPIRIT 

The  call  to  an  informal  dinner  to  be  held  in  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.,  to  discuss  what  business  men  should  do 
to  help  carry  Michigan  for  State-wide  Prohibition,  puts 
the  whole  question  of  the  busy  man  of  the  financial  world 
in  a nutshell  in  these  clear-cut  words : “We  have  plenty 
to  do  attending  to  our  own  business,  but  surely  this  is  a 
part  of  our  own  business.  If  it  is  going  to  improve  the 
conditions  of  the  men  in  our  employ,  increase  the  divi- 
dends of  our  stockholders  and  cleanse  the  social  life  of 
our  city  and  State,  what  more  important  job  can  we 
tackle?” 


THE  DEVIL’S*  WAY  TO  ESCAPE  WEARINESS 

Many  a good  man  and  many  a woman,  too,  have  been 
led  to  take  strong  drink  at  night  in  order  to  banish  the 
sense  of  fatigue  and  weariness.  They  are  overworked 
and  the  .fired  nerves  sound  their  faithful  alarm,  and  in- 
stead of  realizing  that  it  is  nature’s  call  to  rest,  the  weary 
man* or  woihan  silences  the  alarm  clock  by  drink,  thus 
doing  the  greatest  harm  to  the  body. 

Dr.  W.  Pfalf,  a prominent  German  physician,  com- 
menting on  this  common  occurrence,  says:  “The  feeling 


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of  weariness  is  the  safety-valve  of  our  organism  which 
protects  it  from  over-exertion.  Whatever  deadens  this 
feeling  is  like  an  engineer  who  weighs  down  the  safety- 
valve  of  his  engine  to  get  more  work  out  of  it.  ... 
The  fact  that  after  a day's  hard  exertion  a man  feels  his 
fatigue  less  in  the  evening  after  taking  his  usual  ‘mod- 
erate’ tho  non -intoxicating  quantity  of  alcohol  should 
be  set  over  against  the  fact  that  the  next  morning  on 
rising  he  feels  more  fatigued  than  when  he  went  to  bed.  ’ ’ 

THE  SALOON  DESTROYING  THE  PRODUCT  OF 
THE  COLLEGE 

Not  long  ago  a man  who  is  a graduate  of  Oxford,  Eng- 
land, a near  relative  of  a famous  man  whose  name  is 
known  and  loved  in  literary  circles  wherever  the  English 
language  is  spoken,  came  into  Willard  Hall,  Chicago, 
drunk. 

A Christian  worker  conversed  with  him  and  he  said : 

“ I ’ve  two  of  the  sweetest  children  and  the  best  wife  liv- 
ing, but  I am  a slave  to  liquor.  I can’t  get  away  from 
drink.  It’s  ruining  me,  I know,  ruining  my  life  and 
theirs.” 

Why  have  colleges  to  create  men  worth  while  and  then 
license  liquor  saloons  to  lure  them  to  destruction  ? Not 
a college  in  America  or  Europe  but  has  had  some  of  the 
brightest  stars  in  its  alumni  brought  down  from  the 
heavens  in  disaster  through  the  curse  of  strong’ drink. 

•'  ' i 

THE  DEAD  WHO  DIE  IN  THE  DEVIL  • • 

Some  mathematician  has  recently  carefully  figured  it 
out  that  last  year  fifty-seven  saloons  were  closed  every 
twenty-four  hours,  or  an  average  of  a saloon-death  every 


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twenty-five  minutes.  The  mortality  among  “the  higher 
up”  of  the  liquor  crowd  was  something  awful,  also,  last 
year.  Every  third  day,  on  an  average,  a brewery  or  a 
distillery  bit  the  dust. 

If  we  say  about  the  demise  oLgpod  people  or  worthy 
institutions,  “Blessed  are  the  ^ad  who  die  in  the 
Lord,”  I suppose  it  would  be  e^rely  proper  to  say  of 
these  deaths  of  the  liquor  traffic 
who  die  in  the  devil.” 

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TOO  BIG  A FOOL  TO  RUlJ.A  SALOON 

Dr.  Edwin  I.  Steams  is  responfp^  for  the  statement 
that  one  of  the  reasons  given  by  ^^^pplicant  for  a sa- 
loon license  who  recently  appeare^|j^fore  Judge  John- 
son, of  the  County  Court  of  Chesty  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, was  that  he  had  already  takeu'.a  five-year  lease  of 
the  property  and  if  he  did  not  get^fc  license  he  would  ’ 
be  in  a bad  hole.  ^ 

The  Judge  looked  the  saloon  mapper nly  in  the  eye 
and  asked : “Do  yor^mean  to  tell  nie  ji|kt,  in  the  present 
aspect  of  the  liquor  tr^c,  you  have  tSfiM  out  a five-year 
lease  ? ” . . * 

The  applicant  sSfaJ^I  have.” 

The  Judge  cont^Aluously  replied-i^^'^Tf  you  have 
not  any  more  sense  tj^n  that  you  hav«^t  sense  enough 
to  run  a saloon.  Application  refused.*’ ' 

BABY  ON  A SALOON  BA^?; 

On  day  not  long  ago  a mother  came  out'from  her  New 
Y ork  tenement  with  a little  baby  in  her  arffis  and  wended 
her  way  to  a near-by  saloon.  She  went  stranght  up  to  the 
bar  and  placed  the  blue-eyed  baby  on  it,  saying  as 


, ‘4^ursed  are  the  dead 


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she  did  so:  “It’s  you  that’ll  have  to  take  care  of  the 
baby  now.  I’ve  done  all  I can  to  keep  it,  but  now  my 
money’s  all  gone.  This  place  has  made  a bum  of  my 
husband,  Lem.  You  know  you  did  that,”  she  flared  up 
at  the  astonished  barkeeper. 

She  kissed  the  bab^'hiid  went  quickly  out. 

And  yet  some  Christians  shy  at  Prohibition. 

CAtlABA  GOING  DRY 

Canada  is  rapidly;  going  dry.  They  are  going  to  beat 
us  to  it.  The  Toronto  Globe  voices  the  new  attitude 

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toward  the  saloon  ill  .(Janada : “The  bar-room,  of  course, 
is  a nuisance  an;^Iiere  and  under  any  circumstances. 
It  can  not  justify  J^elf.  It  neither  produces  anything 
of  value  or  of  pocwtable  service  to  the  community,  nor 
does  it  stimulate  jSs,  patrons  to  valuable  production.  It 
is  an  economic  bulden.  It  is  a social  menace.  It  is  a 
moral  curse.  Ij;s  access  is  at  thq  financial  cost  and  the 


physical  degen^ 
the  best  conditic 


ion  of  those  wJiom  it  serves.  Under 
it  damages,  Wd  under  the  worst  it 


irreparably  de^ti^Oys.  Its  victir^’  are  a charge  on  the 
ogeny  inherit  jtg,  physical  handicap. 


public.  Their 
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that  degree  sd^^t  and  industri| 


in  its  servic^^hind  the  bar  are  to 
HKparasites  for  whose 


maintenance  others  must  toil, 
bar-room.  ’ ’ 


Certainly,  close  up  every 


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MOTHERS  AT  THEM 

There  is  a’'^iracle  of  fighting  quality  in  motherhood. 
The  rabbit  hijj^been  counted  one  of  the  most  timid  and 
even  eowarcfly  of  animals.  But  Mr.  William  Reisener  of 
Salina,  KaWas,  vouches  for  the  courage  of  at  least  one 


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rabbit.  He  says  he  witnessed  a battle  between  a snake 
six  feet  long  and  a mother  rabbit.  They  fought  for  sev- 
eral minutes,  the  snake  trying  to  coil  its  body  around  the 
rabbit  while  Bunny  scratched  and  tried  to  injure  his 
snakeship.  The  rabbit,  with  one  extreme  effort,  drew 
away  from  the  snake,  and  after  a rest  of  a minute, 
started  in  for  another  fight,  but  at  last  was  caught  in 
the  coils  of  the  reptile  and  was  squeezed  to  death  in  an 
instant.  Mr.  Reisener  killed  the  snake  with  a club.  He 
then  found  a nest  of  young  rabbits  which  the  mother  was 
protecting  as  best  she  could,  and  for  which  she  lost  her 
life.  The  mother  instinct  in  animals  is  very  strong  and 
beautiful. 

Let  us  let  the  mothers  of  boys  and  girls  loose  against 
the  saloons  everywhere ! 

A SALOON-KEEPER  WORKING  FOR  A DRY  TOWN 

At  the  local  option  election  in  Moberly,  Mo.,  the  re- 
markable feature  was  one  of  the  saloon-keepers,  Oswald 
Ratzer,  making  speeches  for  the  drys.  On  the  day  before 
election,  speaking  to  a crowd  in  the  street,  Ratzer  said : 
“I  want  to  tell  you,  men,  that  I’m  broke.  Prosperity 
does  not  attend  saloon-keepers.  Sooner  or  later  they  lose 
the  money  they  have  received  from  the  misguided  men 
who  buy  their  booze.  To-morrow  night,  regardless  of 
how  this  election  goes.  I’ll  close  my  saloon  and  start  life 
anew.  I’m  going  to  live  right,  and  I can’t  do  that  if  I 
"sell  booze.” 

Several  months  ago  Ratzer  tried  to  cut  his  throat. 
During  his  talk  on  the  street  a man  in  the  crowd  called, 
“Give  him  a razor. Ratzer,  pointing  his  finger  at  the 
man,  exclaimed:  “If  you  drink  a little  .of  my  booze 
you’ll  cut  anybody’s  throat.” 


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THE  RIGHT  SHALL  WIN 

In  the  great  wrestling  match  between  good  and  evil 
the  good  shall  at  last  come  up  on  top.  All  earnest  work- 
ers must  face  hours  and  days  that  try  their  courage.  But 
let  us  keep  our  faith  stayed  on  God. 

“Builder  and  maker,  Thou,  of  houses  not  made  with 
hands. 

What,  have  fear  of  change  from  Thee  who  art  ever  the 
same  ? 

Doubt  that  Thy  power  can  fill  the  heart  that  Thy  power 
expands  ? 

There  shall  never  be  one  lost  good ! What  was,  shall  live 
as  before ; 

The  evil  is  null,  is  naught,  is  silence  implying  sound ; 
What  was  good  shall  be  good,  with,  for  evil,  so  much 
good  more; 

On  the  earth  the  broken  arcs ; in  the  heaven,  a perfect 
round. 

“All  we  have  willed,  or  hoped,  or  dreamed  of  good  shall 
exist ; 

Not  its  semblance,  but  itself ; no  beauty,  nor  good,  nor 
power 

Whose  voice  has  gone  forth,  but  each  survives  for  the 
melodist 

When  eternity  confirms  the  conception  of  an  hour.  ’ ’ 

THE  STAIN  ON  “OLD  GLORY”* 

An  American  woman  in  Manila,  after  the  occupation 
of  the  Philippines  by  American  troops,  tells  how  she 
saw,  upon  one  of  the  city  streets,  a ^loon  with  an  Ameri- 
can fiag  fioating  over  it,  the  porch  festooned  in  red, 
white  and  blue ; the  bars  were  draped  in  Old  Glory  and 


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one  of  the  bartenders  in  this  flag-decorated  American 
saloon  was  a woman,  supposed  to  be  an  American.  As 
this  lady  and  her  friend  passed  down  the  street  they 
could  see  her  standing  in  the  doorway  under  the  Stars 
and  Stripes,  a degraded-looking  woman.  But  she  stood 
there  smoking  her  cigar,  cursing  and  swearing  and  in- 
viting young  men  into  the  place.  The  lady  recounting 
this  story,  says:  “As  I saw  her  I remembered  that  here 
was  a people  that  knew  very  little  about  the  United 
States.  But  now,  as  they  passed  down  the  street  and 
saw  the  woman  under  the  flag,  they  pointed  to  her  as 
‘one  of  the  American  women.’  ” 

What  a shame  that  this  great  nation  should  so  stain 
Old  Glory  as  to  permit  it  to  be  used  to  protect  a traffic 
like  that ! 


THE  HOME  WRECKER 

A representative  of  the  Herald  in  Chicago,  who  has 
been  giving  the  matter  careful  investigation,  is  responsi- 
ble for  the  statement  that  the  saloons  of  Chicago  wreck 
at  least  one  home  a day,  which  actually  goes  to  pieces  on 
the  sandbar  of  the  divorce  court. 

Here  is  the  statement:  “Habitual  drunkenness  was 
the  only  charge  made  in  152  divorces  granted.  To  this 
charge  was  added  one  or  two  others  in  124  divorces, — 
that  is,  drunkenness  was  one  of  the  charges,  the  other  was 
one  of  statutory  grounds  recognized  in  Illinois  as  suf- 
ficient cause  for  divorce.  Drunkenness  and  cruelty  ap- 
pear more  frequently  than  any  other  one  combination 
of  charges  on  which  divorces  were  granted  in  the  Su- 
perior Court  last  year.  The  writer  in  the  Herald  calls 
attention  to  the  fact  that  whenever  a petitioner  for  a 
divorce  wanted  to  place  more  than  one  charge  against 


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the  defendant,  the  combination  of  drunkenness  and 
cruelty  was  used  in  45.8  per  cent,  of  the  eases,  and  that 
there  was  foundation  for  the  charge  is  inferred  from  the 
fact  that  the  judges  granted  the  divorces.  These  276 
cases  were  heard  in  the  Superior  Court.  A hundred 
more  were  counted  in  the  Circuit  Court.” 

And  we  all  know  that  for  every  such  wrecked  home 
that  passes  through  the  public  disgrace  of  the  divorce 
court,  there  are  two  or  more  other  homes  that  are 
wrecked  to  all  the  God-purposed  uses  of  a home,  through 
the  stain  and  slime  from  the  saloon.  Shut  the  saloon  and 
save  the  home ! 

PUTTING  IN  OUR  LEAVEN 

Some  one  has  written  a little  poem  that  would  be  good 
for  us  all  to  consider.  He  sings : 

Use  your  little  lump  of  leaven 
In  this  hard  and  dreary  life ; 

Put  a little  bit  of  heaven 
Into  all  this  toil  and  strife. 

Make  some  heart  a little  glad 
With  a little  word  or  deed; 

Cheer  some  weary  soul  that’s  sad, 

And  supply  some  little  need; 

Then  you’ll  find  life  worth  the  living. 

Every  day  God  lets  you  live. 

And  your  little  lump  of  leaven 
Will  grow  big  the  more  you  give. 

It  is  so  hard  for  us  to  learn  the  great  lesson  that  in 
giving  blessing  rather  than  in  receiving  it  is  the  abiding 
secret  of  greatness  and  peace. 


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A VOICE  FROM  THE  CRIMINAL  DOCK 

A trusted  $6,000-a-year  manager  of  a large  business 
house,  a man  high  in  the  social  circle  of  his  city,  was 
arraigned  in  the  criminal  court  on  the  charge  of  having 
robbed  his  employers  as  well  as  others.  In  the  midst  of 
the  trial,  with  some  he  had  defrauded  as  his  strongest 
defenders,  he  made  a clean  breast  of  his  guilt.  The 
staggering  blow  came  hardest  on  his  devoted  wife.  The 
man  said:  “Your  Honor,  I want  to  confess  my  guilt 
and  shame  before  your  court  and  before  the  entire  world. 
One  thing  I want  to  ask,  and  that  is  that  the  good  Lord 
will  give  me  strength  to  serve  out  the  sentence  which 
you  will  impose,  and  that  I may  be  spared  to  make  full 
restitution  to  those  whom  I have  robbed.”  In  giving 
the  reasons  for  his  downfall,  he  said:  “Gadding  and 
guzzling  marked  the  beginning  of  my  moral  ruin ; after- 
ward the  night  life  of  the  city,  partiojaiarly  tangoing  and 
drinking,  completed  it.  There  are  thousands  of  young 
business  men  whose  habits  are  leading  them  along  the 
same  path  I took.  To  them  I say : ‘ Cut  out  the  saloon 
and  patronize  the  library.’  ” 

Good  advice,  but  why  license  a saloon  to  compete  with 
the  library  and  tbe  home? 

NO  LONGER  FIRST  AID 

Only  a little  while  ago,  whisky  was  universally  thought 
to  be  a necessity  in  case  of  accident  or  snake  bite,  but 
that  delirious  day  has  gone  by.  One  of  the  great  rail- 
roads now  employs  detectives  armed  with  cameras  to 
take  a photograph  of  every  employee  who  is  seen  drink- 
ing liquor,  and  immediate  discharge  follows.  "Whisln' 
as  “first  aid  to  the  in^'ured”  has  also  been  strictty  for- 
bidden by  the  chief  medical  examiner  of  this  road. 


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OUR  TRIUMPH  SURE 

Some  of  us  have  known  the  days  of  scoffs  and  sneers 
and  even  bullets  in  the  progress  of  the  temperance  re- 
form during  the  last  forty  years,  hut  we  have  been 
buoyed  in  our  courage  by  the  assurance  that  our  cause 
was  true  and  right  and  must  triumph. 

We  are  now  realizing  the  lines  of  the  poet  who  sings: 

‘ ‘ Truth  never  dies.  The  ages  come  and  go. 

The  mountains  wear  away;  the  seas  retire. 
Destruction  lays  earth’s  mighty  cities  low; 

And  Empires,  States  and  dynasties  expire ; 

But  caught  and  handed  onward  by  the  wise. 

Truth  never  dies. 

“Tho  unreceived  and  scoffed  at  through  the  years; 

Tho  made  the  butt  of  ridicule  and  jest ; 

Tho  held  aloft  for  mockery  and  jeers. 

Denied  by  those  of  transient  power  possest, 

Insulted  by  the  insolence  of  lies. 

Truth  never  dies. 

“It  answers  not.  It  does  not  take  offense. 

But  with  a mighty  silence  bides  its  time ; 

As  some  great  cliff  that  braves  the  elements 

And  lifts  through  all  the  storms  its  head  sublime. 

It  ever  stands,  uplifted  by  the  wise ; 

And  never  dies. 


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“As  rests  the  Sphinx  amid  Egyptian  sands; 

As  looms  on  high  the  snowy  peak  and  crest ; 
As  firm  and  patient  as  Gibraltar  stands, 

So  truth,  unwearied,  waits  the  era  blest 
When  men  shall  turn  to  it  with  great  surprize. 
Truth  never  dies.” 


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